A recent breakthrough in astrobiology has led to the discovery of what is being touted as the ‘strongest evidence yet’ of ...

The astronomy community has been buzzing lately with new discoveries from Kepler data that directly challenge our previous ...

In this latest data mining, scientists unexpectedly discovered two planets with extremely unusual orbits, whose trajectories differ dramatically from the known patterns of planetary orbits. In our ...

Air and space were linked together in a recent flight test by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Kepler ...

Using the Kepler space telescope, a Chinese research team has identified the true source of the pulsating star KOI-1755 ...

Astronomers have discovered the existence of a rare seven-planet system now known as Kepler-385 while looking at Kepler telescope data.

A research team led by Ph.D. candidate Wang Haozhi under the supervision of Prof. Ali Esamdin at the Xinjiang Astronomical ...

Kepler has almost single-handedly ignited the field of exoplanet science. Since it launched in 2009 it has found more than 2,600 worlds beyond our Solar System, the vast majority of exoplanets we ...

The discovery marks the first solar system to tie with our solar system in the number of planets orbiting one star, according to NASA.

The solar system where the new planet was discovered isn't new. "We already knew that Kepler-90 hosted seven planets," Vanderburg said during the press conference.

Scientists said they weren’t sure why the Kepler-90 system has such a crowded field. Perhaps some of the planets formed farther out and were eventually drawn inward, they said.

Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, a ...