Space.com talks to artist and author Martin Vargic, who is turning exoplanets into stunning and intricate art.

This artist's concept shows an overhead view of the orbital position of the planets in systems with multiple transiting planets discovered by NASA's Kepler mission, and announced on Jan. 26, 2012 ...

This artist's concept depicts the newfound planetary system KOI-961, which contains three alien planets smaller than Earth. The exoplanets circle their red-dwaf host star at very close distances ...

SEE ALSO: Seven Earth-sized planets orbit an alien star only 40 light-years away. ... In general, basically any photo or picture you see of TRAPPIST-1 and its planets is art in some form.

Though it is the smallest alien world caught on camera around a sunlike star, the gas planet around GJ 504 is still huge — about four times the size of Jupiter.

Artist's impression of alien planets of different colors. Given the diversity and resilience of purple-pigmented photosynthesizers here on Earth, ...

An undated artist's impression of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet's equator.

As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists couldn't be certain that stars beyond the sun also had planets orbiting them. Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet, or ...