Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

These changing environments will have a direct impact on the nature of these exoplanets. The most common size of world is one we do not have in our solar system, these planets have radii greater than ...

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

Astronomers have observed a wild exoplanet with winds reaching incredible speeds of up to 20,000 mph.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...

It could also lay the foundation for finding other habitable planets outside the solar system. Exoplanets are shy Exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — are not the most photo ...

The telescope used what's known as the transit method to look for exoplanets (worlds outside our solar system), launching a new era of planetary discovery. Kepler watched over 530,000 stars for ...