The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've observed in the universe so far.

JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water. Recent observations with NASA’s advanced JWST telescope have revealed a ...

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 that could support life.

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

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 ...

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University / Jason Rowe / NASA Ames Research Center ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered whether Earth-like planets are rare gems or commonplace across the stars. Recent ...

In this week’s special CEO Series edition of Space Minds, we’re at the World Space Business Week in Paris. In today’s episode ...

Recently, the field of astronomy has been quite lively, as new discoveries from Kepler data have directly overturned our previous understanding of planetary orbits!

Located at a relatively close distance of 41 light years from Earth, the Trappist-1 system has attracted significant ...