Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable? Could there ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...

Ellipses are defined as curves that surround two focal points. At any point on the ellipse, the sum of the distance to both ...

The researchers used data collected by NASA's Kepler telescope, which monitored 150,000 stars and measured dips in their brightness caused by transiting planets to discover thousands of exoplanets.

IT'S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been located.

The researchers used data collected by NASA's Kepler telescope, which monitored 150,000 stars and measured dips in their brightness caused by transiting planets to discover thousands of exoplanets.

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

"The telescope was named after Johannes Kepler, who, four centuries ago, was the first scientist to appreciate that the planets in our solar system move on slightly elliptical rather than circular ...