Starlight has been the key to finding thousands of exoplanets over the past decade, but researchers have found a new way to ...

A new study has identified a potentially record-breaking haul of transiting exoplanets, thanks to a machine learning ...

Scientists have discovered unexpected water-ice clouds on a distant, Jupiter-like exoplanet, challenging current atmospheric ...

Scientists have discovered a 'super–Earth' planet less than 20 light–years away, and it could have the right conditions for alien life. The exoplanet, dubbed GJ 251 c, is at least four times larger ...

Astronomers have discovered 41 new alien planets in one sweep by analyzing how each world gravitationally yanks on its neighbors. The newly confirmed exoplanets were spotted by NASA's prolific Kepler ...

Astronomers may have just uncovered over 10,000 new exoplanet candidates in a single sweep, potentially tripling our known tally of alien worlds. Using a machine learning algorithm to sift through ...

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 ...

Alien solar systems that are home to so-called "hot Jupiters" — gas giants circling sizzlingly close to their stars — are unlikely homes for Earth-like planets, researchers say. Hot Jupiters get their ...

Astronomers have discovered a remarkable planetary system where three very different objects orbit a distant star—and their ...