Somewhere in four years of starlight recorded by NASA’s planet-hunting telescope, 114 worlds were hiding in plain sight. They ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than the sun and thus exist outside the solar system. The word "exoplanet" ...

To date, humanity has discovered over 6,200 confirmed exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, according to NASA's ...

NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date, filling in ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Tau Ceti is the star system of choice for Marathon, Project Hail Mary, and Directive 8020, among others. Here's why.

The search for Earth 2.0 has begun in earnest. But there's a huge variety of exoplanets out there, so narrowing down the search to focus valuable telescope time on only the best candidates is critical ...

At 11.9 light-years from us, i.e., our stellar neighborhood, a giant gaseous planet named Epsilon Indi Ab has surprised ...