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The Search for Another Earth
Goldilocks Zone
Maybe We're the Weird Ones
If You Like It, Then You Should've Put Rings On It
Infographic: Planet Kepler-186f, trailblazer
Gemini Planet Imager shows darting exoplanet
Through the Looking Glass
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Super Earth—Super Girth
Less Mass, More Gas
It's a Star-Eat-Planet World
Getting Closer to Another Earth: Kepler's 4500+ Planet Candidates
Infographic: Profile of planet 51 Pegasi b
The discovery that changed the way we see our universe: 51 Pegasi b
Location of Nearest Rocky Exoplanet Known
Hot, Rocky World (Artist's Concept)
Each Planet Is Unique, Every 100 Billion+ of Them
Little Black Spot on the Star Today (Artist's Concept)
Identification of Exoplanet Host Star OGLE-2005-BLG-169
Brown Dwarf Aurora
Earth's Bigger, Older Cousin -- Artistic Concept
Comparison between Earth and Kepler-452b and their host stars
A Window Into Time
Infographic: Profile of planet Kepler-452b
Kepler's Greatest Hits
Twelve New Small Kepler Habitable Zone Candidates
Kepler Planet Candidates, July 2015
Assessment of Kepler Dataset
Twenty Years of Progress
Kepler-452 and the Solar System
Exoplanet Missions
What if there is some place like home?
Finding Another Earth: Candidate Lineup
Searching for Habitable Worlds
Soaking up the Rays of a Sun-like Star - Artistic Concept
A Whole New Universe
Artist's Impression of a Jupiter twin orbiting HIP 11915
Hypothetical 'Rejuvenated' Planets (Artist's Concept)
"Behemoth" Bleeding Atmosphere Around a Warm Exoplanet
Mars-size Kepler-138b Gets a Mass
A Mars-size Exoplanet
Hubble Detects "Sunscreen" Layer on Distant Planet
Helium-Shrouded Planets (Artist's Concept)
Oh Planet, What Art Thou?
Kepler's Six Years In Science (and Counting)
Q&Alien - What's a "habitable zone"?
Infographic: Finding Planets With Microlensing
Time Delay in Microlensing Event
Map of Exoplanets Found in our Galaxy (Artist's Concept)
TESS Mission Trailer
Planet With Four Stars (Artist's Concept)
The Search for Alien Earths - How Coronagraphs Find Hidden Planets
Kepler-444 Planetary System (Artist's Concept)
J1407b: Super-Saturn
LBTI hits the dusty trail of Earth-like planets
It's Raining Comets
Kepler Planet Candidates, January 2014
'Disk Detectives' Top 1 Million Classifications in Search for Planetary Habitats
NASA Kepler's Hall of Fame: Small Habitable Zone Exoplanets
Kepler Planet Candidates, January 2015
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.