The recent discovery of an exoplanet just 20 light-years away has sparked intrigue and debate among the scientific community. The planet exhibits a startling similarity to Earth, including the ...
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 ...
An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...