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Growth Spurt for a Young Star
How Will TESS Look for Exoplanets?
Bringing Hubble's Science into Focus
Goodnight Kepler: Final Commands for Space Telescope
Discovery Alert! A New Super-Earth in the Neighborhood (Six Light-Years Away)
Hubble Finds Smiling Face in a Hunt for Newborn Stars
NASA will give an update on the Kepler space telescope today
NASA retires Kepler space telescope, passes planet-hunting torch
Rocky? Habitable? Sizing up a galaxy of planets
Meet the Kepler mission team
Superflares from young red dwarf stars imperil planets
Latest on the Kepler spacecraft
New moon? Astronomers find first evidence of a possible moon outside our solar system
Kepler space telescope placed in sleep mode
How do you find – and confirm – a planet? 10 things about the search for exoplanets
First light! TESS shares first science image in hunt to find new worlds
Other skies, other suns: the search for exoplanet atmospheres
Discovery alert! Oddball planet could surrender its secrets
New apps: 'NASA Selfies' and TRAPPIST-1 VR
15 years in space for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
Water is destroyed, then reborn in ultrahot Jupiters
NASA's planet-hunting TESS catches a comet before starting science
Symphony of stars: The science of stellar sound waves
Discovery alert! Baby pictures of newborn giant planet
NASA uses Earth as laboratory to study distant worlds
Will we know life when we see it? NASA-led group takes stock of the science
Taking the astronomical road less traveled
10 ways to BBQ on an exoplanet
Take a virtual trip to a strange new world with NASA
NASA's new planet hunter snaps initial test image, swings by Moon toward final orbit
Hubble detects helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time
Giada Arney attempts to answer, "Are we alone?"
NASA web sites, social media honored in 2018 Webby Awards
Stellar dust survey paves way for exoplanet missions
NASA planet hunter on its way to orbit
What in the world is an ‘exoplanet?'
Astrophysics CubeSat demonstrates big potential in a small package
NASA nominated for six 2018 Webby Awards
Discovery alert! An Earth that looks like Neptune
NASA prepares to launch next mission to search sky for new worlds
NASA's Webb Observatory requires more time for testing and evaluation; new launch window under review
Discovery alert! A weird alien Mercury as big as Earth
Kepler beyond planets: Finding exploding stars
10 Things: Exoplanets 101
NASA's Kepler spacecraft nears the end as fuel runs low
NASA finds a large amount of water in an exoplanet's atmosphere
10 Things: All About TRAPPIST-1
Discovery alert! 95 new planets found with NASA telescope
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite arrives at Kennedy Space Center for launch
Happy Valentine's Day
New clues to compositions of TRAPPIST-1 planets
Two telescopes reveal new clues to TRAPPIST-1 planet compositions, atmospheres
Hubble probes atmospheres of exoplanets in TRAPPIST-1 habitable zone
Discovery alert! Iron-massive super Earth
Multi-planet system found through crowdsourcing
Exoplanet News
Stars and their planets make their own eclipses – important scientific tools for detecting and characterizing exoplanets.
That Starry Night Sky? It's Full of Eclipses
Two recently discovered exoplanets, gas giants possibly similar to Saturn, could be candidates for further atmospheric investigation.
Discovery Alert: a Long Year for a 'Cold Saturn'
A newly discovered 'super-Earth' dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized companion.
Discovery Alert: A 'Super-Earth' in the Habitable Zone
In a system with two known planets, astronomers spotted something new: a small object transiting across the Sun-sized star. This turned out to be another planet: extra hot and Earth-sized.
Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a 'Lava Hemisphere'
Fifteen years ago, astronomers delivered what is now an iconic direct image of an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b.
Seeing, Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images
Six "sub-Neptunes" orbit their star in a kind of rhythmic dance – one easily set to music.
Discovery Alert: Watch the Synchronized Dance of a 6-Planet System
Scientists find that a glowing cloud that obscured a star was caused by a cataclysmic collision of two giant exoplanets.
Discovery Alert: Glowing Cloud Points to Cosmic Collision
A large, gaseous planet orbits a star that should have destroyed it.
Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn't Be There
With the discovery of six new exoplanets, scientists have tipped the scales and surpassed 5,500 exoplanets found (there are now 5,502 known exoplanets, to be exact).
Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery Milestone Passed!
Stars farther from the center of our galaxy possess fewer of the most common types of planets, a recent study shows.
Discovery Alert: On Our Galaxy's Outskirts, a Poverty of Planets
Scientists used the Webb Telescope identified water vapor in the atmosphere of WASP-18 b, and made a temperature map of the planet as it slipped behind, and reappeared from, its star.
Discovery Alert: Webb Maps and Finds Traces of Water in an Ultra-hot Gas Giant's Atmosphere
A team of astrophysicists and citizen scientists have identified what may be some of the last planets NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope observed during its nearly decade-long mission.
Astronomers Discover Planets in NASA Kepler's Final Days of Observations
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.