After nearly ten years and 2,681 planets, it's time to say good-bye to the Kepler space telescope. NASA has announced that the mission has ended. Unlike more open-ended missions like Curiosity or ...

A high school student has made a significant discovery using old space data. Ana Humphrey re-examined information from the ...

If you’re looking for Earthlike planets around other stars — places about the size and temperature of our own planet, where life could in theory be found — it might seem like a letdown to stumble ...

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

Relative sizes of the newly discovered habitable-zone planets and Earth. Left to right: Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: ...

Scientists analyzing four years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission have released a new catalog of exoplanet candidates. The catalog adds more than 500 new possible planets to the 4,175 already found ...

Scientists have added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The ...

IMAGE: Among thousands of known exoplanets, MIT astronomers have flagged three that are actually stars. Pictured is an artist’s interpretation of stars and planets. CREDIT: NASA A new study published ...

The unusual system of three “super puff” planets has at least one more planet, revealed by its gravitational tug on other planets An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density ...

Although NASA agreed that the search for Earth-sized planets around sun-like stars was an important one, Boruki’s initial proposals for the mission were rejected because there was no proof that the ...