Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet — but this time, the way they found it may be as significant as the discovery itself. Researchers used a breakthrough combination of indirect and direct ...

On March 21, NASA announced the confirmation of the 5,000th planet outside our Solar System. From scorching-hot gas giants nestled near their parent star to rocky worlds that may host water on their ...

The search for new planets outside the solar system, also known as exoplanets, is one of the most fascinating and interesting challenges that astrophysics research has been facing in recent years.

For anyone who grew up reading science fiction or watching Star Trek, the existence of planets outside our solar system was a given. We took it for granted that there must be millions of these star ...

High-resolution Doppler spectroscopy is a powerful tool for identifying molecular species in the atmospheres of both transiting and non-transiting exoplanets. Currently, such data is analysed using ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

As the first successful technique used to detect exoplanets orbiting distant stars, the radial velocity method aims to detect a periodic Doppler shift in a stellar spectrum due to the star's motion ...

Astronomers continue to exoplanet discoveries around distant stars — here are the most intriguing finds so far. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Artist’s rendition of variety of exoplanets featured in the new NASA TESS-Keck Survey Mass Catalog, the largest, single, homogenous analysis of TESS planets released by any survey thus far. The study ...