Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than the sun and thus exist outside the solar system. The word "exoplanet" ...

Exoplanets are often discovered using the transit method (more than three-quarters of those discovered have been found this way.) The same transit technique can be used to study them, often revealing ...

Space telescopes are revolutionizing exoplanet discovery, allowing astronomers to detect Earth-like worlds orbiting distant stars. By observing subtle dimming of starlight, measuring gravitational ...

The catalog of known worlds beyond our solar system has crossed another threshold. NASA’s official tally now exceeds 6,000 ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the first confirmed discovery in the 1990s, more than 5,000 have been identified, ...

August 14, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute awarded the Davie Postdoctoral Fellowship for AI/ML-driven exoplanet discovery to Isabel Angelo. Machine learning is changing the way we search ...

When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995, Sara Seager and Dave Charbonneau were graduate students at Harvard. Both were studying topics totally unrelated to planets orbiting distant stars. Yet ...

The giant exoplanet WASP-94A b has two fundamentally different skies: a cloudy, cooler morning side and a clearer, hotter ...

In June 2012, Hinode probe (of JAXA and NASA), dedicated to the study of the Sun, observed the planet Venus transiting in front of our star. In the next decade, researchers will start probing the ...