Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

An exciting new planet has been discovered by astronomers at the edge of our galaxy. Named AT2021uey b, the planet is described as Jupiter-sized and is located about 3,200 light-years from Earth.

Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been detected for the first time. This intriguing result, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, opens up a new window to ...

Astronomers have created a planet-by-planet guide to our galaxy—detailing a catalog of thousands of exoplanets detected by NASA's Kepler mission. The Updated Catalog of Kepler Planet Candidates: Focus ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way. At least 500 million of those ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

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