The planet, known as GJ 9827 d, is roughly twice the size of Earth and has an atmosphere composed almost entirely of water ...

Such planets are relatively rare in the universe. Kepler-385 is among ... “NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the majority of known exoplanets, and this new catalog will enable astronomers ...

It’s the ultimate game of find a needle in the haystack. One NASA scientist is betting on AI to help expedite the search ...

K2-288Bb, as the new planet is called ... brighter star is half the size of the sun. Kepler, which died nine years after launching into space, has discovered more than 2,600 confirmed planets.

University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA’s ...

A distant planet has been dubbed Earth 2. ... the Earth is a little less lonely because there's a new kid on the block," said Jon Jenkins, Kepler data analysis lead at Nasa's Ames Research Center ...

Scientists have discovered planets similar in size to Earth ... But 1 planet has been confirmed: Kepler 452b. This new discovery suggests that our home planet isn't alone in the Milky Way galaxy ...

This "exomoon" is not like any in our cosmic neighbourhood: it's the size of Neptune and orbits a planet the ... University in New York. To date, astronomers have discovered more than 3,500 ...

Located around 100 light-years away from Earth, the exoplanet is shrouded in a thick envelope of steam. This world, designated GJ 9827 d, is around twice the size of Earth, three times more massive ...

This kind of changing orbital tilt is something that astronomers often see with circumbinary planets. New planets to learn from Out of roughly two dozen currently known circumbinary planets, 12 were ...

Abstract: The presence of mean-motion resonances (MMRs) in exoplanetary systems is a new exciting field of celestial mechanics ... We have plotted the evolution of the resonant angles and found that ...