Terrestrial Exoplanets

They might make up the most famous planetary system beyond our own: the TRAPPIST-1 star and its seven small, rocky…

How different is our solar system from others in the Milky Way? And how much are we alike? This five-part…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct…
The Discovery Four rocky planets much smaller than Earth orbit Barnard’s Star, the next closest to ours after the three-star…

This catalog lists the stars that are the best candidates to explore for Earth-like exoplanets with NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory…

On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists…

Using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers have discovered…

Our galaxy is a jewel box of red stars. More than 70% of the stars in the Milky Way are…

An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and…