For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

And that’s exactly what scientists have been doing for decades: searching for exoplanets, worlds orbiting faraway stars. They’ve had tremendous success: So far, NASA’s official count of ...

The Exoplanet Lab is part of the NSF-funded WHIMC ... WHIMC uses Minecraft as a creative sandbox where kids can explore alternative versions of Earth allowing researchers to study how “What ...