Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

American space agency NASA announced the launch of an improved software called ExoMiner++ that is used to detect exoplanet ...

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" A new planet, similar to Jupiter, has been found revolving around a ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

Kepler Space Telescope, a mission which was designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy, retired in 2018, but its ...

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

The formation of planets is a fascinating process. They usually originate in a disc of dust and gas surrounding stars. When particles come together, they form a clump, and through a process called ...

The same team that recently discovered the possibly water-covered, life-supporting planet, Kepler 22b, two weeks ago announced the discovery of two more Earth-sized planets on Monday. Ars Technica's ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She ...