Three months into its observations and TESS was already finding confirmed exoplanets. Another 280+ potential exoplanets are getting follow-up observations from telescopes back ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) officially began scouring the sky for exoplanets last month. Today, astronomers announce the first of what is ...

NASA’s Kepler along with a pair of telescopes on Earth confirmed 15 new exoplanets recently. All of them orbiting red dwarf stars. One ...

For Kepler’s first four years, it stared at a patch of sky in the Cygnus constellation. As it trailed behind Earth’s on its ...

40 light years from Earth sits an ultracool dwarf star formerly known as 2MASS J23062928-0502285. Today, it’s called TRAPPIST-1 after the telescope used ...

Update: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has entered emergency mode. The mission team has declared a spacecraft emergency giving them priority access to NASA’s Deep ...

The first phase of the Kepler mission discovered thousands of potential exoplanets. 1,031 of these were confirmed while the other 4,696 are listed ...

Seems like an easy question, right? It was, until the 1990s. Before the 1990s, a planet was defined as any large body orbiting ...

NASA’s Kepler mission is back in the spotlight with Kepler-452b, a near-Earth-size planet discovered in the “habitable zone” around a star much like ...