Learn more about the Kepler-51 star system and some of the ''oddball" planets that reside there.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken the deepest look yet at Kepler-51d, an ultra-low-density exoplanet sometimes compared to cotton candy, and found that a thick atmospheric haze blocks nearly ...

How many exoplanets are in the cosmos and what can they tell us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an ...

Move over TRAPPIST-1 – there’s an exciting new planetary system in town. Meet Kepler-385, home to seven Super-Earths that were just discovered in existing data. Located about 4,670 light-years from ...

The unusual system of three “super puff” planets has at least one more planet, revealed by its gravitational tug on other planets An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density ...

Paranoid? Want to be Michael Knight (let’s face it, who doesn’t want to be David Hasselhoff, who singlehandedly brought down the Berlin Wall and introduced us Pamela Anderson?) and have between $625 ...

A team of researchers led by Bill Cochran of The University of Texas at Austin has used NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to discover an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and two ...

NASA scientists working on the Kepler Mission have discovered an unprecedented solar system, in which two planets with vastly different densities and compositions are locked in a surprisingly close ...