The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — ...

NASA/ESA/CSA/Anne-Marie Lagrange (CNRS, UGA)/Mahdi Zamani (ESA/Webb) Located around 111 light years away from our solar system, and thus being quite close in space ...

A University of Arizona-led team discovered a growing planet, WISPIT 2b, forming inside a disk gap around a young star. The finding confirms theories that protoplanets carve out gaps in disks of gas ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

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

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...

The Milky Way just got a lot more crowded — with planets. NASA on Tuesday announced 1,284 new planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, called exoplanets. That's on top of the approximately ...