The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The discovery of the "hot Jupiter" exoplanet 51 Pegasi b on Oct. 6, 1995 changed the course of astronomical history.

It wasn’t until the ‘90s that our astronomical powers advanced enough to confirm the existence of worlds around other stars. Since that very first discovery, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are ...

Thirty years ago, on a crisp October day in 1995, two Swiss astronomers changed the course of cosmic history. Michel Mayor ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

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 ...

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 ...