Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

Nasa has discovered over 6,000 exoplanets - planets outside our Solar System and continue to search for Earth-like worlds ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...