After three years of searching, scientists have caught the elusive phenomenon. — -- The "brilliant flash" that occurs when a star dies and explodes has been captured for the first time in visible ...

Astronomers call it KOI-134, and it's a star located 3,747 light-years away from Earth. Despite the huge distance that separates us, we've known it was there for more than a decade now, ever since the ...

A recent conundrum about a star 1,500 light years away discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope has extraterrestrial enthusiasts crying "alien" as an explanation, but scientists studying the star are ...

NASA astronomers recently discovered a new class of rocky planet measuring 2.3 times the size of Earth and 17 times its diameter. Dubbed “mega-Earth,” this type of planet challenges all previous ...

There's some sad news from NASA: The space agency says its Kepler space telescope is beyond repair. The $600 million planet-hunting probe whose mission was to search other solar systems for Earth-like ...