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What's Next for the Webb Telescope?
Discovery Alert: 172 Possible Planets? A New Roadmap to Distant Worlds
New Deep Learning Method Adds 301 Planets to Kepler's Total Count
Discovery Alert: A Giant Planet and Three Eclipses
Are We Alone in the Universe? NASA Calls for New Framework
Dress Up Your Digital Meetings With Cool Backgrounds From NASA
How to Find Hidden Oceans on Mysterious Worlds? Chemistry
First Evidence of a Planet Identified Beyond Our Galaxy
The Exploration Behind the Inspiration at NASA
Accidental Discovery Hints at a Hidden Population of Cosmic Objects
Cosmic Legacy: Retired Space Telescope Reveals ‘Hot Jupiter' Secrets
Discovery Alert: a 'Cool' Planet – with Plenty of Atmosphere?
Marble in the Sky: the Hunt for Another Earth
Hubble Watches How a Giant Planet Grows
The Searchers: How Will NASA Look for Signs of Life Beyond Earth?
Neighboring Star's Bad Behavior: Large and Frequent Flares
Fast-Spinning Brown Dwarfs May Reveal a Rotational Speed Limit
Roman Telescope Predicted to Find 100,000 Transiting Planets
Space Telescope Delivers the Goods: 2,200 Possible Planets
Distant Planet May Be On Its Second Atmosphere, NASA's Hubble Finds
Life in the Universe: What are the Odds?
NASA's TESS Discovers New Worlds in a River of Young Stars
What's Out There? The Exoplanet Sky So Far
Discovery Alert: Burning Questions for a Hot Super-Earth
Discovery Alert: First Six-star System Where All Six Stars Undergo Eclipses
NASA's Roman Mission Will Probe Galaxy's Core for Hot Jupiters, Brown Dwarfs
Seven Rocky TRAPPIST-1 Planets May Be Made of Similar Stuff
Citizen Scientists Help Create 3D Map of Cosmic Neighborhood
Discovery Alert: A Forgotten Planet Found in a Triple-Star System
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.