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 ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

Nasa’s Webb telescope has found a new moon around Uranus. The tiny object is only about 10 kilometres wide and is the 29th ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

NASA has announced a new milestone in the hunt for planets around other star systems, known as "exoplanets". Humanity has been looking at the stars for a long time, but the earliest detections of ...

A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of ...

A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...

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 ...

NASA scientists on Tuesday announced the discovery of a 29th moon orbiting Uranus while using infrared detection in the James Webb Telescope in February. File Photo courtesy of NASA Aug. 19 (UPI) ...

American space agency NASA announced this week the counter showing the number of confirmed exoplanets has now reached over 6,000.