Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star. The newfound alien world, designated ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...