scientists have discovered exoplanets far beyond the rim of our own galaxy. Many types of exoplanets exist, but we often shorthand with descriptions like "super-Earth," hot Jupiter, and mini-Neptune.

There are hundreds of millions of planets around other stars in our Milky Way galaxy that may be habitable, argues a new research paper. These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our ...

When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995 ... give us a reasonably complete picture of where planets live in our galaxy,” Gaudi says. It will also provide clues about how planets are ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in ... a hundred billion planets exist in the Milky Way galaxy. Of those, as many as ten billion may be rocky ...

Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets, one of which is in ... our Sun and easily the most abundant in our Milky Way galaxy, making up about 80% of the population as far ...

And that’s exactly what scientists have been doing for decades: searching for exoplanets ... distant star systems in our Milky Way galaxy. Now players are ready for Mission 1, where they ...