The odds of an exoplanet being Earth-like in the sense that it could be successfully inhabited by humans are, well, astronomical. Many specific environmental qualities must be in place.But a recently-discovered planet ab...

For the adventurous traveler, I present NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's travel posters, based on Kepler's exoplanet discoveries. We've featured other posters on Neatorama that are stylized in tribute to the government-i...

Quite a few companies have regretted their decisio...  ...me by internet poll. However, the suggestions for exoplanets shown in the latest xkcd panel are awesome. I Lik...

Dreaming of relocating to another planet? The term...  ...of Puerto Rico at Arecibo developed The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog to chart planets that are possibly habita...  ...ater and life is a possibility. Approximately 900 exoplanets have been confirmed by scientists, and there are...  ...er 2,500 others as y...

Data from NASA's Kepler space telescope shows...  ...Data from NASA's Kepler space telescope shows two exoplanets that orbit closer to each other than any other pl...

Randall Munroe of xkcd demonstrates to us how greatly our knowledge of the cosmos has expanded just recently. Here's his scaled representation of all 786 known planets, most of which were unknown a few years ago. He...

Maybe we should have kept Pluto! A star 127 light-years away shows evidence of having a record (as far as we know) nine planets revolving around it. The star is designated as HD 10180, in the southern constellation Hydru...

It seems like astronomers are finding more and mor...  ...seems like astronomers are finding more and more exoplanets every day -some which might possibly support life...  ...a into a series of travel posters, featuring some exoplanets that already have names. See the rest of the seri...

It was only in 1995 that astronomers found measura...  ...astronomers found measurable evidence of specific exoplanets , or planets outside our solar system. Now we have...  ...r solar system. Now we have actual images of some exoplanets , as well as artist renderings of the data collect...  ...ther stars. Howev...

[caption id="attachment_29411" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo: NASA"][/caption] Michael Mautner of Virginia Commonwealth University says that part of the human condition we enjoy is a responsibility to...