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Hubble Pins Down Weird Exoplanet with Far-Flung Orbit
Life in Our Solar System? Meet the Neighbors
About Half of Sun-Like Stars Could Host Rocky, Potentially Habitable Planets
New NASA Posters Feature Cosmic Frights for Halloween
Easy Crafts from NASA: Make Your Own Exoplanets
NASA's TESS Creates a Cosmic Vista of the Northern Sky
Search for New Worlds at Home With NASA's Planet Patrol Project
Among Trillions of Planets, Are We 'Home Alone?'
NASA Missions Spy First Possible ‘Survivor' Planet Hugging a White Dwarf Star
Unveiling Rogue Planets With NASA's Roman Space Telescope
Battered, Blasted: a Giant Planet Core Laid Bare?
NASA's Planet Hunter Completes Its Primary Mission
Hubble Uses Earth as a Proxy for Identifying Oxygen on Potentially Habitable Planets Around Other Stars
Discovery Alert: See the Image – 2 Planets Orbit a Sun-like Star
Finding Disks Where Planets Form: 'Disk Detective' Needs Your Help
NASA's TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World
NASA's TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star
Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds
In Planet Formation, It's Location, Location, Location
NASA Telescope Named For ‘Mother of Hubble' Nancy Grace Roman
Discovery Alert: A New Giant, Directly Imaged
NASA's TESS Enables Breakthrough Study of Perplexing Stellar Pulsations
Know the Star, Know the Planet
Explore Exoplanets at Home with NASA
No Blue Skies for This Super-Hot Planet
Vote for Us! NASA Receives 12 Webby Nominations for 2020
Discovery Alert: The Rhythmic Dance of a 5-planet System
Exoplanet Apparently Disappears in Latest Hubble Observations
ExoQuest: An Eyes on Exoplanets Scavenger Hunt
Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data
The Weirdest Solar System We've Found So Far? You May Be In It
Download our Exoplanet Coloring Pages and #ColorWithNASA
WFIRST Will Use Warped Space-time to Help Find Exoplanets
Discovery Alert: New Planet — a Heavyweight, but Habitable?
Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission Approved by NASA
Discovery Alert: This Four-planet System is Leaking
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery
For Hottest Planet, a Major Meltdown, Study Shows
How Earth Climate Models Can Help Scientists Search for Life on Other Planets
NESSI Emerges as New Tool for Exoplanet Atmospheres
NASA Celebrates the Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope
How NASA's Webb Telescope Will Continue Spitzer's Legacy
10 Things Spitzer Taught Us About Exoplanets
Saying Goodbye to One of NASA's Great Observatories
Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life
NASA's Newest Planet Tracker Finds a Sky-high Perch
Discovery Alert! High School Student Finds a World With Two Suns
New Technique May Give NASA's Webb Telescope a Way to Quickly Identify Planets with Oxygen
Simulated Image Demonstrates the Power of NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World
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.