Up until now, exoplanet surveys have mostly focused on nearby, bright stars that are sun-like or are red dwarfs, which are known to frequently host planets. While astronomers have discovered thousands ...

Michael Endl is on a mission: As a research scientist with the University of Texas at Austin, he hopes the sum of his astronomy career will be a chart characterizing exoplanets, like you might find on ...

The study of exoplanets has come a long way since the first detection of a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun in 1995.

Astronomers have discovered one of the lightest planets ever found and it's orbiting the star right next door to our own, just over four light-years away from Earth. Confirmation of Proxima d is ...

An international collaboration of researchers has identified a rocky exoplanet half the size of Venus, making it the lowest-mass planet measured so far. They published their findings in Astronomy and ...

Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial velocity. As the planet “Beta Pictoris c” ...

Exoplanets, short for `extra solar planets’, are planets outside our solar system. They are objects with masses less than around 15 Jupiter-masses that orbit stars other than the Sun. They are small ...

A team of scientists has confirmed that the nearby star GJ 887 hosts at least four planets, one of which could be a habitable ...

KOI-5Ab is a newly discovered planet in a triple-star system. It is a great example of the kind of astonishing discoveries that result from cooperation between large teams of astronomers using ...

These schematic images show the geometry of the Beta Pictoris system: The image on the left shows both the star and the two planets embedded in the dusty disk in the orientation as visible from the ...