Discovered in 2011 by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, TrEs-2b absorbs 99% of the light it is struck with and reflects only 1%, ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

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 ...

They found that 98% of the thousands of sub-Neptunes they modeled, which are the most common type of exoplanet found so far, ...

The year 2025 marked significant advancements in exoplanet science, revealing new discoveries and fresh perspectives on known ...

Six of them are in what's called the temperate zone, which is an area where the temperature is thought to be between 0 and 100 degree Celsius. The researchers say that all seven could potentially ...

KOI-5Ab is a newly discovered planet in a triple-star system. It is a great example of the kind of astonishing discoveries that result from co-operation between large teams of astronomers using ...

A global team of astronomers led by a Turkish scientist has discovered four new exoplanets, one of which lies within the inner edge of its star’s habitable zone and may have an atmosphere, 90 ...

NASA’s TESS telescope spots three new exoplanets Three newly found exoplanets, including one Earth-like world, may offer experts clues on how planets in our own solar system are formed.

The exoplanet is believed to be one of the farthest known from Earth. This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most ...

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 ...