Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

Astronomers hope such telescopes can take raw exoplanet discoveries a step further by picking up light from their atmospheres — and potentially "sniffing" out biosignatures that may indicate the ...

It found plenty, but some discoveries were easier to verify than others, and the very first exoplanet ever detected by Kepler has only just been confirmed. When scientists first notice evidence of ...

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This week, the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy launched its first satellite which could pave the way for exoplanet discoveries, the School of Music Theatre & Dance hosted “Rapping ...

However, the first exoplanet, and five more that followed in the first half of 1996, qualified only as distant cousins. Because the technique that revealed them could find only massive planets ...