Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was more than 30 years ago when the first ever exoplanet was discovered. Since then, astronomers have discovered more than ...

CNN — Ten years after the Kepler Space Telescope launched and revolutionized exoplanet discovery, Kepler-1658 b has finally been confirmed as the first exoplanet that the mission ever detected. It's ...

Astronomers are amazed to have discovered a baby exoplanet gobbling up matter around an infant star like a planetary Pac-Man.

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like star. The Nobel-winning discovery, later published in the pages of Nature, ...

On Oct. 6, 1995, the discovery of 51 Pegasi b in the constellation Pegasus - a planet about half the size of Jupiter approximately 50 light years away - was announced in the magazine Nature. On Oct. 6 ...

It was only three decades ago that astronomers first discovered planets outside our solar system. Since then, astrophysicists have found more of these “exoplanets” — including some Earth-like worlds ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they block their star's light and by the way they make their stars wobble, and ...