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Hubble Observes a Mystery: 'Cotton Candy' Planets
Public Helps Name More Than 100 Exoplanets
Discovery Alert: Hellish Planet, Meet Your New Rival
Astronomers Propose a Novel Method of Finding Atmospheres on Rocky Worlds
Why Do Scientists Search for Exoplanets? Here Are 7 Reasons
NASA Instrument to Probe Planet Clouds on European Mission
TESS Reveals a Mosaic of the Southern Sky
NASA's Latest Posters Are a Halloween Treat
Observing Exoplanets: What Can We Really See?
Discovery Alert: 2-planet System Is Close – and Weird
Nobel Winners Changed Our Understanding with Exoplanet Discovery
TESS Spots a Star-shredding Black Hole
Five Reasons You Wouldn't Want to Live Near a Black Hole
WFIRST Space Telescope Fitted for 'Starglasses'
A Hubble first: Water vapor found on habitable-zone exoplanet
Discovery Alert: Rocky Planet Swelters Under Three Red Suns
NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface
Follow That Planet! How Astronomers Chase New Worlds in TESS Data
WASP-121b: A ‘Heavy Metal' Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football
Discovery Alert: Finding Planets Where They Shouldn't Be
TESS Scores ‘Hat Trick' With 3 New Worlds
Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World
TESS Completes First Year of Survey, Turns to Northern Sky
Planet Profile: A Gas Giant Orbiting a Mysterious Star
What Makes a Good Planet Turn Bad? Find Out in New 'Habitable Zone' Video
Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer
TESS Finds Its Smallest Planet Yet
A Whirlpool 'Warhol' from NASA's Spitzer Telescope
Discovery Alert: New Twin Planets Prompt Comparisons to Earth
Oceans, beaches, cosmic shorelines: our changing views of habitable planets
Discovery Alert: A Record Haul -- Planet Count Hits 4,000
How NASA's Spitzer Has Stayed Alive for So Long
Starshade Would Take Formation Flying to Extremes
NASA's Spitzer Captures Stellar Family Portrait
A New View of Exoplanets With Webb
Looking for Life-Friendly Climates on Other Worlds
Planet-Hunter CubeSat Images Los Angeles
Discovery Alert: TESS Serves up Two New Planets
New Clues About How Ancient Galaxies Lit up the Universe
Discovery Alert: These Giants are Hot
The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole
Discovery Alert: A Third Planet in Kepler-47 System
Discovery Alert: TESS Finds Its First Earth-Sized Planet
Black Hole Image Makes History; NASA Telescopes Coordinated Observations
What Is a Black Hole?
Discovery Alert! Two new planets – found by AI
High School Senior Uncovers Potential for Hundreds of Earth-Sized Planets in Kepler Data
'Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars
The Hunt Is on for Closest Earth-like Planets
'Goldilocks' Stars and the Hunt for Habitable Worlds
Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth
What Did Kepler Teach Us? Celebrating the Space Telescope, 10 Years after Launch
Discovery Alert! Kepler's First Planet Candidate Confirmed, 10 Years Later
Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies
Why Do Some Galactic Unions Lead to Doom?
NASA Study Reproduces Origins of Life on Ocean Floor
NASA-Funded Research Creates DNA-like Molecule to Aid Search for Alien Life
Discovery Alert: Three New Neptunes?
In Colliding Galaxies, a Pipsqueak Shines Bright
NASA Selects a New Mission to Explore the Origins of Universe
Tour 55 Cancri e in 360 Degrees, Get the Travel Poster and More
NASA's TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae
Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope
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.