Kepler-1658b, orbiting with a period of just 3.8 days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by the Kepler space telescope in 2009. In 2019, astrophysicist Ashley Chontos used sound waves ...

Swipe Down for Full Video Story Imagine standing on the surface of an alien world nearly 600 light years away from Earth. The ...

Although astronomers have directly imaged a few dozen gas giants on the scale of Jupiter, Earth-sized planets are too small and dim to be directly imaged. That's not to say there's a shortage of Earth ...

A review of Kepler data reveals 95 newly discovered exoplanets, one of which could be of great interest to astronomers. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

The Kepler Space Telescope ended its wildly successful planet-hunting mission last year, but it's still making discoveries from the grave. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has since ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission. Among the findings tallying 197 initial planet ...

An artist's conception of the Earth-sized exoplanet Kepler-186f, which orbits in the habitable zone of a distant solar system some 500 light-years away. Credit: NASA Ames / SETI Institute / ...

Scientists say about 10,000 new exoplanet candidates may be hiding in NASA data, after using artificial intelligence to scan millions of stars—including ones too faint to study before.

A star's magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of exoplanets from observations by space telescopes such as Kepler, James Webb, or PLATO. Researchers ...

Scientists identify 45 potentially habitable exoplanets, using exact data and quotes to guide future telescopes in the search for extraterrestrial life.

NASA released dramatic new findings from the planet-scouting Kepler spacecraft project Thursday. Looks like the universe is way, way more crowded than we had realized. The Space Administration ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the first confirmed discovery in the 1990s, more than 5,000 have been identified, ...