An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star known as HD 35843. The finding was reported in a ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

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Scientists plan to study it as well. A confirmed exoplanet at Barnard's star A confirmed exoplanet orbits Barnard's star every three days. Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser illustration Barnard's star ...

Proxima Centauri, a star just over four light-years away, has at least two exoplanets confirmed by multiple instruments on Earth and in space. There's a nearby planet with twin suns like Tatooine ...

Just about 31 years ago, in 1992, the first exoplanets were confirmed when scientists detected twin planets Poltergeist and Phobetor orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12. In March 2022, just last year ...

Collect them all. NASA JPL announced a cosmic milestone on Monday with the confirmed discovery of more than 5,000 exoplanets. A new batch of 65 planets located outside our solar system joined ...

Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet discovery space and investigating the nature of dark energy. However, since those ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, researchers say.