There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

A recently published report describes a “starshade” currently being developed that would resemble a giant sunflower floating in space. As Liz Kruesi reports, the instrument could allow astronomers to ...

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 ...