One thing we've learned in recent decades is that exoplanets are surprisingly common. So far, we've confirmed nearly 6,000 planets, and we have evidence for thousands more. Most of these planets ...

Studying the chemical cloud has taken a long time because it is often obscured by WASP-49 b (left) and the exoplanet's home star WASP-49 (right). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) In addition to ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal.

Explore some of these distant worlds and strange worlds with us, how they compare to our own solar system planets, and the ways in which we search for them. We can even use Minecraft to simulate ...

When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995, Sara Seager and Dave Charbonneau were graduate students at Harvard. Both were studying topics totally unrelated to planets orbiting distant stars.

Now a recent discovery around a Saturn-size planet 635 light-years from Earth offers one of the best potential clues that exomoons orbit exoplanets out there in the Milky Way. And this possible ...

When we think of exoplanets that may be able to support life, we home in on the habitable zone. A habitable zone is a region around a star where planets receive enough stellar energy to have ...

One new mission involves collecting Purple Pumpkins spread across the map. However, due to the area's vastness, acquiring all 25 of them can be quite a challenge. To help you complete the quest ...

Here's how the Purple Hybrid Premier 3 mattress has held up after half a decade and my thoughts on whether you should consider Purple for your next mattress. Owen Poole, a Certified Sleep Science ...

The Purple Plus mattress is a luxurious step up from the Purple Original, adding two extra inches of foam while retaining the body-contouring comfort of its predecessor's GelFlex Grid. Both soft ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, methane and carbon monoxide on exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The exoplanet is more ...

Now, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Patek Philippe has introduced a new rose-gold version with a (fittingly) royal-purple dial. Equipped with a user-friendly quartz movement, the watch is ...