Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

This exoplanet transit shows background stars that could be biasing calculations of the exoplanet's size. Credit: Nikolai Berman/UC Irvine New research suggests that scientists (and their computer ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...

Meet Tylos: a gas giant 900 light years away and with a climate never seen before on any planet known to scientists. Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have uncovered the secrets of an alien ...

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