Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

The fact that the exoplanet's atmosphere is capturing so much intense radiation from the stars of the HD 189733 binary system means that it is rapidly being stripped away to space. All may not be lost ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

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Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds. The total will rise even quicker as next-generation telescopes take flight.