A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic physics. In 2025, astronomers did not just add new dots to the map, they ...

The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Trained on data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced ...

NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into planetary formation and life’s potential elsewhere.

It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...

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 ...