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

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope had confirmed its 1,000th exoplanet. By 2022, the tally ...

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

A research team led by Ph.D. candidate Wang Haozhi under the supervision of Prof. Ali Esamdin at the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed the ...

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

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

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 ...

In this latest data mining, scientists unexpectedly discovered two planets with extremely unusual orbits, whose trajectories differ dramatically from the known patterns of planetary orbits. In our ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

Six members of Wesleyan faculty were recognized for their outstanding research and leadership at a faculty meeting on Sept. 9 ...

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 ...