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.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope got a clear view of a sub-Neptune exoplanet's atmosphere, offering insight into a ...

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.