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An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

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

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

How many planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, exist throughout the Milky Way Galaxy? While that might never be determined, NASA recently announced the total number of confirmed ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

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 ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

Traub, of the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, does not agree with that sentiment, though he admits to feeling that way, especially when it comes to the impending WFIRST-AFTA mission to directly ...

NASA's ExoMiner AI trained on Kepler data, has now been trained on TESS data as well. The open-source tool accelerates the ...

Pandora will study the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets during its yearlong mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's ...

The 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247) is being held Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 and will feature remarkable findings in exoplanet research and discussions shaping the future of ...