Scientists say about 10,000 new exoplanet candidates may be hiding in NASA data, after using artificial intelligence to scan ...

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A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK’s WASP project in ...

Exoplanet science and the search for life beyond Earth continue to advance at break-neck speeds, with the number of confirmed exoplanets by NASA rapidly approaching 6,300, with 223 of those exoplanets ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

In a significant leap forward in the quest for extraterrestrial life, NASA recently announced the detection of oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. This revolutionary discovery will be the ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Scientists have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of the planet tau Boötis b, which orbits a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It's hard to find planets around other stars. But it's possible - by a variety of subtle methods ...

Astronomers now estimate there is at least one planet for every star in our galaxy. These worlds, called exoplanets, are ...