Through the looking glass: Observations from NASA's Kepler mission ended in 2018, but scientists are still pouring over what it recorded. That data can include information about new solar systems and ...

A new planetary member of the Kepler-10 solar system was announced today. Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, members of the Kepler science team confirmed a new planet, dubbed Kepler-10c.

Since the discovery of Kepler-10, the system has received considerable interest because it contains a small, rocky planet which orbits the star in less than a day. The system’s parameters, announced ...

Scientists have discovered a distant solar system very much like our own, in which the orbits of all known planets lie in nearly the same plane and are aligned with the star's rotation. In recent ...

AMES, Iowa – An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system ...

Team "pro-exomoon" is back to defend the discovery of the first and only exomoons potentially seen by humanity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Before Johannes Kepler’s Third Law, the motions of the planets around the Sun were a mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.