Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

A distant exoplanet might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

NASA has officially tracked 6,000 confirmed exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—a milestone that reflects decades of ...

Astronomers have discovered that many sub-Neptune exoplanets, once thought to host vast oceans, are far less watery than ...

There is much less water on the surfaces of distant planets outside our solar system than previously thought. These ...

American space agency NASA announced this week the counter showing the number of confirmed exoplanets has now reached over 6,000.

A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors during formation. Instead of vast oceans, ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...