Humanity has already found more than 6.000 planets outside the solar system. This is according to NASA's official database, which now lists 6.007 confirmed exoplanets. In addition, there are more than ...

Irvine, Calif., July 14, 2025 — In new research, University of California, Irvine astronomers describe how more than 200 known exoplanets are likely much larger than previously thought. It’s a finding ...

Anew study led by Robb Calder at the University of Cambridge suggests that nearly all known sub-Neptune exoplanets, previously thought to be potential ocean-bearing“hycean worlds,”are far more likely ...

This is an artist's rendering of the YSES-1 system, which has two gas giant planets. See how the James Webb Space Telescope imaged them in infrared below. Credit: Ellis Bogat illustration Webb usually ...

NASA has discovered a huge new trove of planets outside our solar system. Nine of them could be capable of supporting life. In a major announcement on Tuesday, the US space agency revealed it has ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) helped astronomers to find and create a 2D model of an exoplanet in 2023. More recently, in ...

How many planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, exist throughout the Milky Way Galaxy? While that might never be determined, NASA recently announced the total number of confirmed ...