To help, you’ll have to master the same techniques scientists use to find and characterize exoplanets – worlds orbiting faraway stars.

When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995, Sara Seager and Dave Charbonneau were graduate students at Harvard. Both were studying topics totally unrelated to planets orbiting distant stars.

Astronomers have uncovered the secrets of an alien atmosphere on an exoplanet far beyond our Solar System, and it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. In a scientific first, an ...

Exoplanets are the celestial bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. Their small size makes them difficult to detect from Earth, particularly as they appear much dimmer than their parent stars ...

Scientists say they are rethinking how the weather works after creating a 3D map of an exoplanet 900 light-years away and discovering a world with jet streams fueling wild storms. WASP-121b ...

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to sustain liquid water, which is vital for life, as we know it ...