The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...

Overlooked in the Kepler data and discovered by a citizen scientist, HD 137010 b is one of the most interesteing exoplanets ...

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Trained on data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced ...

It's remarkably similar to Earth.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A super-Earth basks in the glow of its star in this artist's impression. Is the world habitable ...

If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.

Astronomers and philosophers have long speculated on the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars. In the 1990s the first of such objects, now called exoplanets, were discovered by astronomers.

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...