New Planets

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.

ESO's HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet around Ross 128.

If you were standing on TRAPPIST-1D looking out at the other six planets in your system, they would look large - something like our moon does to us - but be moving much faster.

Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90.