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

Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

The exploration and study of exoplanets have advanced significantly in recent years, leading scientists to reconsider how these distant worlds are classified. As our understanding deepens, so does the ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — A team of astronomers from New Mexico State University and Northwestern University has discovered a new exoplanet by analyzing years of data from an old observational ...

A Neptune-sized planet closely orbiting its host star has just been discovered, making it only the fourth object of its kind ever identified. Scientists detected the planet, designated TOI-3261 b, ...

An artist's depiction of the system showing the host star, transiting planet, misaligned transition disk, and wide binary companion (in the background). NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, K. Miller ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...