First Exoplanet discovered with Water
First super-Earth exoplanet discovered with water vapor, orbiting in the habitable zone of its star, which may hold alien life.
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How many Earth-like planets are nearby?
New study provides most accurate estimate of frequency that exoplanets similar to Earth occur around stars similar to our sun.
18 Earth-sized exoplanets discovered
Astronomers using a new method to find small planets orbiting nearby stars, which previous surveys had overlooked, discovered 18 Earth-sized exoplanets.
The best places to look for closest Earth-like Planets
NASA’s new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will observe 400,000 stars across the whole sky to catch a glimpse of a planet transiting across the face of its
Astronomers find first evidence for an Exomoon
Astronomers find first compelling evidence for a Moon, an exomoon, outside our solar system.
Nearly 100 New Exoplanets have been discovered
Nearly 100 new exoplanets orbiting stars outside our solar system have been discovered.
Multi-planet System discovered through citizen scientists
A system of at least five exoplanets has been discovered by citizen scientists through a project called Exoplanet Explorers.
NASA finds a new Solar System as big as ours
With the discovery of an eighth planet, the Kepler-90 system is the first to tie with our solar system in number of planets.
NASA finds new Εxoplanets to destroy after our own
Astronomers discovered 10 near-Earth size exoplanets orbiting in their star’s habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a star where liquid water could pool on
An Earth-Sized ‘Tatooine’ Planet
Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine in “Star Wars,” with two suns in its sky, looks like a parched, sandy desert world.