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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

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 ...