Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...
Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...
Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far. Scientists are even beginning to move beyond mere detections, and working on ...
Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...
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NASA's next-gen Roman Space Telescope is fully built. Could it launch earlier than expected?
The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...
In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...
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