Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

The newly discovered planet, named Kepler-51e, was revealed through subtle yet telling anomalies in the transit of one of the system’s previously known planets.This detection adds a new layer of ...

Illustration of the Kepler-51 system and its inner three planets, which have unusually low density. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suggest that at least one more planet is ...

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There are two odd gaps in our solar system: the gap in size between ... within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft.

For astronomy lovers, and for the general public, this January 21 will be one of those planetary alignments that is ...

Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along ... Jupiter is the biggest planet in our Solar System, and it gets its name from the leader of the ancient Roman gods.

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed ... Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets ...