Exoplanets, or extra-solar planets, are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. What have scientists found deep in space? Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...

New research has unveiled the potential for an atmosphere around an Earth -sized planet located approximately 40 light-years ...

On Wednesday, NASA quietly uploaded a 19-minute mini-documentary about exoplanets, and the search for a planet or moon that has similar characteristics to Earth. The hope, of course, is that if we ...

In 2023, scientists made some pretty smashing exoplanet discoveries. Here are the highlights.

Why our knowledge of exoplanets, worlds that are beyond our solar system, has exploded in the last three decades.

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard's stars is the closest single star to Earth. Credit: ESO ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch a first-of-its-kind exoplanet telescope, which will perform detailed studies of hundreds of known worlds beyond the Solar System. The mission ...

Astronomers report the first exoplanet jointly discovered through direct imaging and precision astrometry, a new indirect method that identifies a planet by measuring the position of the star it ...

A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly ...