An international team of astronomers, led by San Diego State University researchers, has discovered a third transiting planet in the Kepler-47 (K-47) circumbinary system - a system where the ...

All seven planets boast orbits nearer to their star, Kepler-385, than Mercury's average distance from the sun. "All of the planets are 'fried' more intensely than any planet in our solar system ...

Artwork: the Kepler-90 system is the first to tie with our Solar System in number of planets Nasa has found a distant star circled by eight planets, equal to the complement in our own Solar System.

Comparison of the relative sizes of several Kepler circumbinary planets, from the smallest, Kepler-47 b, to the largest, Kepler-1647 b. Kepler-1647 b is substantially larger than any of the ...

A team of astronomers has potentially discovered the first known moon beyond the Solar System. If confirmed ... The signal was detected by Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope; astronomers now plan ...