NASA has officially tracked 6,000 confirmed exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—a milestone that reflects decades of cumulative discoveries and ongoing research efforts. This achievement, ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT.

What role can the relationship between oxygen (O 2) and ozone (O 3) in exoplanet atmospheres have on detecting biosignatures? This is what a study submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to ...

In a significant leap forward in the quest for extraterrestrial life, NASA recently announced the detection of oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. This revolutionary discovery will be the ...

There are promising signs that one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 star system, which lies about 40 light years from Earth, has an atmosphere capable of supporting life. But scientists will need to ...

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 team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...

"There's one we haven't found — a planet just like ours. At least, not yet." It might sound hard to believe, but NASA's exoplanet count just reached 6,000 — and that's with only about 30 years of ...

In principle, discovering new exoplanets is pretty easy. Simply measure the brightness of a star over time, and when a planet passes in front of the star, the brightness will dim slightly. The more ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer. With the number of exoplanets having ...