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

In the study, JWST detected possible traces of dimethyl sulfide, a chemical known to be emitted only by phytoplankton on ...

Each of the seven blisteringly hot extra-solar planets — or "exoplanets" — in the system Kepler-385 received more radiation from the sun-like star they orbit than any planet in the ...

You may have heard a lot about the iconic Hubble Space Telescope and the famous James Webb Space Telescope, but NASA has an array of other telescopes that have rendered yeoman's service and one of ...

Most of those observations were made by the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which for four consecutive years kept an eye on a small patch of sky containing a few hundred thousand stars.

Artist's depiction of what exoplanet Kepler 22b might look like. It was discovered by the Kepler satellite telescope. Kepler 22b likely receives a similar amount of light and heat from its star as ...

Luke Skywalker would feel right at home on Kepler-16b. This exoplanet is the first known circumbinary planet — a planet that orbits two stars at the same time, just like Tatooine from the Star ...

In so doing, it was known that Kepler would find numerous other planets much larger than Earth and would greatly increase our knowledge of extrasolar system composition and exoplanet frequency.

A steam-shrouded planet unlike any we’ve seen before has been detected nearly 100 light years away. The planet, known as GJ ...

Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets and to identify 2,300 candidate planets now awaiting confirmation via further ...

In the journal Nature Astronomy, astronomers announced that the two exoplanets — Kepler-138 c and Kepler-138 d — could be made up of mostly water. But how did they figure that out, when the ...

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