NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has identified TOI-4616 b, an Earth-sized planet transiting a cool M4 dwarf star in the solar neighborhood. The discovery, detailed in a new preprint, adds ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

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Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our own solar system.

Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets ...