Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are waiting to be discovered.

New simulations suggest sub-Neptune planets may be drier than thought, challenging the "water world" hypothesis and reshaping ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major leap in space exploration and the search for life beyond Earth.

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

Astronomers are buzzing over 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object hurtling through our solar system, and a new theory claims it can create planets.

The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure ...

A recent study has sparked intrigue by suggesting the existence of a mysterious object from beyond our solar system behaving ...

The number of alien planets is monitored by NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), based in Pasadena, California. But ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Some planets may be soot-rich rather than water-based. Atmosphere studies will be key to understanding their true nature. Astronomers generally consider water worlds to be among the most common types ...

But it’s not just looks. Rocky composition, general size, orbital behaviors—a lot of those qualities can be the same on both ...