It’s official: the Sun is no longer the only star with eight planets. In a joint teleconference today, NASA and Google announced the recent discovery of an eighth planet orbiting the Sun-like star ...

A hot, rocky planet discovered using the Kepler space telescope is the smallest ever found outside our solar system. The new planet, called Kepler-37b, has a radius less than a third the size of Earth ...

Fluff surrounds the solid interiors of each of the three planets in the Kepler 51 star system. Each of these planets was discovered to have masses "only a few times larger than Earth's" with radii ...

Swipe Down for Full Video Story Imagine standing on the surface of an alien world nearly 600 light years away from Earth. The ...

We’re not alone. At least when it comes to solar systems with the same number of major planets as ours. NASA today announced details about the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, ...

On Feb. 22, astronomers announced that the ultra-cool dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1, hosts a total of seven Earth-size planets that are likely rocky, a discovery made by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in ...

Scientists have used data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope to discover a “vampire” star “sucking” the life out of another star. Experts discovered a surprising “super-outburst” from a dwarf nova, a ...

The Kepler Telescope may no longer be operational, but it is still providing invaluable information to astronomers. Using data gathered by Kepler, researchers have been examining a dying star called ...

The artist's concept depicts Kepler-186f , the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone—a range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the ...

NASA Kepler's Space Telescope ventured into worlds unknown to look for exoplanets that are in other systems and galaxies, and one of its earliest discoveries is the Kepler-1658b. Now, news regarding ...

AMES, Iowa – NASA’s Kepler Mission was all about finding planets outside our solar system – especially Earth-like planets that could support life – but it also revitalized the study of stars. “It was ...