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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

New planets to learn from Out of roughly two dozen currently known circumbinary planets, 12 were discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a satellite that was ultimately responsible for finding ...

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 ...

The newly discovered world is small enough ... The machine learning technique was also used to find a new Earth-sized planet, called Kepler 80g, around a different star. Some 3,500 exoplanets ...