New Planets

Two independent teams of astronomers have uncovered convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit around an infant star known as HD 163296.

Astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems, one of them hosting three planets with the same size of the Earth.

With NASA's interactive Exoplanet Exploration website, you can virtually explore an imagined surface of planets that lie outside our solar system.

Personal recollections of an astrophysicist shed new light on the 1995 discovery on 51 Pegasi b.

Step outside on a clear night, and you can be sure of something our ancestors could only imagine: Every star you see likely plays host to at least one planet.

Machine-learning system uses physics principles to augment data from NASA crowdsourcing project.

A hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet with a density similar to Mercury - situated 339 million light years away -- has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers.

Scientists report the existence of 15 new planets -- including one 'super-Earth' that could harbor liquid water -- orbiting small, cool stars near our solar system.

A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy.

Caltech staff scientist Jessie Christiansen is a founder of a citizen-scientist project called Exoplanet Explorers.