To date, over 5,500 exoplanets — planets that orbit stars other than the sun — have been discovered, and a large portion of those alien worlds have been observed via something called "the transit ...

If you've ever wanted to help find an exoplanet, this is your chance. There's a new open research initiative that invites participants to help identify exoplanets using simple visual pattern matching ...

Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s brightness when a planet passes in front of it, and the radial velocity ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous cosmic panoramas, helping us answer questions about the evolution of our universe. Astronomers also expect the mission to find thousands ...

The first confirmed exoplanets were discovered in 1992 orbiting a pulsar, followed by the first discovery around a sun-like star in 1995. Currently, nearly 5,500 exoplanets in over 4,000 systems have ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC) To date, over 5,500 exoplanets — ...