The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, challenging many of the previously held assumptions about planetary ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

NASA is celebrating a big milestone after the 6,000th exoplanet discovery was confirmed this week. Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...