Currently, the closest exoplanet to Earth is Proxima Centauri b, which orbits the star Proxima Centauri, located 4 ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new exoplanets.

NASA has officially tracked 6,000 confirmed exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—a milestone that reflects decades of cumulative discoveries and ongoing research efforts. This achievement, ...

August 14, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI Institute awarded the Davie Postdoctoral Fellowship for AI/ML-driven exoplanet discovery to Isabel Angelo. Machine learning is changing the way we search ...

Scientists are actively searching for exoplanets, planets beyond our solar system, that might harbor life. Using advanced telescopes and methods like the transit and radial velocity techniques, they ...

"A few planetary systems happen to be oriented so that the planets [can cross the face of] their home star as seen from Earth. When this occurs, the dimming of the star's light can be detected using ...

Exoplanet magnetic fields were measured for the first time using ultra-hot Jupiter wind speeds in a June 2026 Nature ...

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The sometimes monthly pronouncements that astronomers have detected yet another potentially habitable extrasolar planet, one that might possibly harbor life, have become somewhat akin to Aesop’s fable ...

Two hundred scientists will convene at the Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado on February 6-12 to mark the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the first extrasolar planet around a sunlike star ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a new "super-Jupiter" planet that is one of the coldest worlds ever seen outside the solar system. The extrasolar planet or ...