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

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 ...

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

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

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

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

Importantly, the 6,000 figure is continuously updated as astronomers around the world confirm new planets, meaning no single planet is officially the 6,000th.

It was not until the early 1990s that the existence of planets orbiting other stars was confirmed, and now 6.000 are known. This number is likely to grow.

New research using Nasa's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the ...

Lady Gaga can consult astrologists all she wants. We’d prefer our world leaders have more robust inner circles, though. 12 ...

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 ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in water—centered on presumed ...