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 ...

The first planetary system discovered was nothing like our own. It was more like a zombie solar system. Appropriately named ...

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

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

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.

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 ...

This detection is the first multi-planet system discovered exclusively ... if used in such a way. Kepler mission scientists and controllers then devised a new method of keeping Kepler stably ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found a "first of its kind" world, an exoplanet that is twice the size ...