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 ...

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 ...

This image from the paper is a visual representation of the planets in their abbreviated catalogue, showing planets by size and stellar temperature. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our solar system has a king. The planet Jupiter, named for the most powerful god in the Greek pantheon, has bossed around the other planets through its gravitational influence. With twice the mass of ...