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Year in review: Top 5 NASA moments of 2017
Discovery of eight planets makes alien system the first to tie with our solar system
Holiday Special: Eight nights of Exoplanet Light
Mars mission sheds light on habitability of distant planets
WASP-18b has smothering stratosphere without water
Lava or not, exoplanet 55 Cancri e likely has an atmosphere
Discovery alert! ESO finds second-closest Earth-size planet in habitable zone
Our living planet shapes the search for life beyond Earth
Overlooked treasure: The first evidence of exoplanets
Halloween Special: Universe of Monsters
Hubble observes exoplanet that snows sunscreen
Discovery alert! A sizzling super Earth
Giant exoplanet hunters: Look for debris disks
Want to see the surface of another Earth? Use our Sun
Discovery alert! A nearby super Earth
What looks good on paper may look good in space
Discovery alert! Colossal planet spotted
NASA's Hubble captures blistering pitch-black planet
Science alert! Hellish skies on a hot world
X-rays reveal temperament of possible planet-hosting stars
Hubble delivers first hints of possible water content of TRAPPIST-1 planets
NASA team passes major technological milestone for characterizing exoplanets
Discovery alert! Three Earth-mass neighbors
An eclipse by any other name: Doing science with transits and occultations
Scientists improve brown dwarf weather forecasts
TRAPPIST-1 is older than our solar system
NASA selects proposals to study galaxies, stars, planets
Hubble detects exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere
An Earth-like atmosphere may not survive Proxima b's orbit
Hidden stars may make planets appear smaller
NASA releases Kepler survey catalog with hundreds of new planet candidates
NASA hosts briefing on latest results of exoplanet-hunting mission
Icy moons, galaxy clusters, and distant worlds among selected targets for James Webb Space Telescope
An image is worth a thousand worlds
Flares may threaten planet habitability near red dwarfs
Astronomers find planet hotter than most stars
Astronomers confirm orbital details of TRAPPIST-1h
'Warm neptune' has unexpectedly primitive atmosphere
SOFIA confirms nearby planetary system is similar to our own
'Iceball' planet mass of Earth discovered
Planet hunters named in TIME's Top 100 Most Influential People
Earth-sized 'Tatooine' planets could be habitable
Will wobbling stars guide us to ‘100 Earths'?
Role models, footsteps, and the search for life
NASA announces astronomy and astrophysics fellows for 2017
A fearless astronomer behind a game-changing telescope
NASA Selects Medium-scale Space Mission Concepts to Study for 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey
Longtime JPL engineer to help lead hunt for exoplanets
Planet Hunters: Finding beauty in the universe
Planet Hunters: For Rachel Akeson, science is in the genes
Planet Hunters: On a quest for astronomy's holy grail
'Genius' granted
Bright star sets her sights on exoplanets
NASA's Kepler provides another peek at ultra-cool neighbor
Probing seven promising worlds with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Exoplanet astronomer searches for a brighter future
The engineer building a smaller telescope for the stars
Earth-sized planets: The newest, weirdest generation
NASA telescope reveals largest batch of Earth-size, habitable-zone planets around single star
NASA to host news conference on discovery beyond our solar system
NASA-funded website lets the public search for new nearby worlds
Spitzer hears stellar 'heartbeat' from planetary companion
Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public
JPL rolls out the red carpet for 'Baby Kepler'
NASA team looks to ancient Earth first to study hazy exoplanets
Hubble witnesses massive comet-like object pollute atmosphere of a white dwarf
Planets of red dwarf stars may face oxygen loss in habitable zones
Mysterious white dwarf pulsar discovered
New planet imager delivers first science
A four-planet system in orbit, directly imaged and remarkable
Hubble captures ‘shadow play' caused by possible planet
Can garnet planets be habitable?
Exoplanet News
The planet is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth, but whips around its star in only two days.
Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet
A second Earth-sized world is found in habitable zone of a star with three previously known planets.
Second Earth-sized World Found in System's Habitable Zone
A previously discovered "hot Jupiter" appears to be spiraling into its star, new data shows.
Discovery Alert: For This Familiar Planet, a Death Spiral
Two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star may be "water worlds." They are 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, and are unlike any planet found in our solar system.
Two Super-Earths May Be Mostly Water
Webb's firsts keep coming: Observations of the exoplanet WASP-39 b show fingerprints of atoms and molecules, as well as signs of active chemistry and clouds.
NASA's Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before
New observations show that a previously identified exoplanet, TOI-1075 b, is among the most massive super-Earths found so far.
Discovery Alert: Massive Planet is a 'Hulk' among Super-Earths
A new study of the "super-Earth" GJ 1252 b shows that the planet likely has a very minimal atmosphere or, possibly, no atmosphere at all.
Discovery Alert: Ultra-hot 'Super-Earth' Could Have No Atmosphere
A newly discovered 'super-Earth' lies in the habitable zone around its star, and appears to be in a prime position for further atmospheric investigation.
Discovery Alert: A Rocky 'Super-Earth' in the Habitable Zone
Webb ushers in a new era of exoplanet science with the first unequivocal detection of carbon dioxide in a planetary atmosphere outside our solar system.
Webb Sees Carbon Dioxide in Exoplanet's Atmosphere
A "super-Earth" discovered using the TESS satellite might be a "water world," though more observations are needed.
Discovery Alert: Intriguing New ‘Super-Earth' Could Get a Closer Look
The James Webb Space Telescope will examine the "lives" of exoplanets, from formation through maturity and eventual demise.
Exoplanets: What NASA Will See with the Webb Telescope
Webb captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star.
Webb Reveals Steamy Atmosphere of Distant Planet in Detail
Explore Alien Worlds
Exoplanet Travel Bureau
This set of travel posters envision a day when the creativity of scientists and engineers will allow us to do things we can only dream of now.
Strange New Worlds
Explore an interactive gallery of some of the most intriguing and exotic planets discovered so far.
Historic Timeline
A planetary tour through time. The ancients debated the existence of planets beyond our own; now we know of thousands.