Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the 19th century.

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

The main method used to find each world is shown as one of seven colors. For example ... search on a small patch of the sky and used the transit method of exoplanet detection on 150,000 stars.

When we gaze up at the sky, we often expect to see the familiar shades of blue or grey. But sometimes, nature surprises us with a vivid display of colors that seem almost too magical to be real.