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.

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 ...

These planets receive more intense heat from their star, per unit area, than any celestial body in our solar system. Located within the Kepler-385 system, all these exoplanets are larger than ...

Ashley Chontos, Princeton's Henry Norris Russell Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics, was part of a team discovering that Kepler-1658b is spiraling to its doom around its aging star, providing a ...