Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so much of the universe beyond Earth; however, some of the most interesting ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

A recently published report describes a “starshade” currently being developed that would resemble a giant sunflower floating in space. As Liz Kruesi reports, the instrument could allow astronomers to ...

Hundreds of distant planets may be far larger than scientists once believed. New research reveals that many exoplanets found by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) might have been ...

"There's one we haven't found — a planet just like ours. At least, not yet." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It might sound hard ...

"If extraterrestrials do exist, scientists have found a promising location for where they could be hiding," said the Daily Mail. Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar ...

The planet formed 50 million years after the dinosaurs died, making it incredibly young in cosmic terms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by the show's two hosts, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hello, hello. REGINA BARBER AND EMILY KWONG: Hey, Ailsa ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, ...

In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...