The exoplanet is believed to be one of the farthest known from Earth. This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most ...

Astronomers have identified four exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf star just 6 light-years away from Earth. No, really, this time it’s for real! We have to emphasize this because ...

NASA is celebrating a big milestone after the 6,000th exoplanet discovery was confirmed this week. Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets ...

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 ...

John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is designing the first family of ISEE’s (Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets) with sizes from 35 to 100 meters in diameter. A starshade would ...

"Barnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly impossible.