Explore the discovery of seven Earth-like planets beyond our solar system.

Exoplanet Fomalhaut b (also known as Dagon) disappeared before astronomers’ eyes after being detected multiple times. A new theory suggests the would-be planet was actually a cloud of debris ...

(Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) The first strong evidence for an exoplanet with an orbit perpendicular to that of the binary system it orbits has been observed by astronomers in the UK and Portugal. Based ...

Here's everything to know about the discovery, the exoplanet and the search for life in the cosmos. A strong possibility exists that extraterrestrial life can be found on a distant exoplanet known ...

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 ...

Researchers developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see exoplanets that are normally obscured by light from their parent stars. The images show theoretical, experimental and ...

The exoplanet, WD 1856+534 b, was first spotted in 2020 and is twice as old as our solar system. The world is about the size of Jupiter but about six times more massive and much chillier ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT illustration Astronomers have accidentally found a planet ...

A research group from the USA has discovered an exoplanet that is losing so much material in its close orbit around its star that it is trailing a comet-like tail half an orbit long. This was ...