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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s surface — and centuries later, the pioneering drawings are helping scientists solve a ...

NASA’s Kepler observatory should be able to detect planetary moons – yet to be discovered – formed by far-away planetary collisions outside our Solar System, research by Amy Barr of the Planetary ...

The curious minds at What If explore how the discovery of Kepler 22-b in our solar system would alter everything we know about space and life. Illinois spent more on healthcare for illegal immigrants ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed ...

And then there were two—maybe. Astronomers say they have found a second plausible candidate for a moon beyond our solar system, an exomoon, orbiting a world nearly 6,000 light-years from Earth. Called ...