We will never hear from NASA’s Kepler space telescope again. On October 30, the space agency announced the telescope’s mission was coming to ...

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

Add another 95 exoplanets to the total tally discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft. One of them orbits the brightest star, HD 212657, confirmed ...

Planetary systems outside our own tend to follow a similar pattern. The planets are usually around the same size and each one spaced ...

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 ...

The dry furnace of Arizona or the wet heat of Florida. Hot is hot. But these corners of the U.S. have nothing on ...

8.5 billion miles away from the Sun sits a cold world bathed in darkness. Known as 2014 UZ224, it’s the latest dwarf planet ...

NASA’s Kepler telescope is best known for looking for minuscule dips in brightness around stars to spot planets. But that’s not all Kepler ...

181 light years away, four planets pass in front of their star – K2-72. Kepler has just spotted a handful of the 104 ...

Since its launch in 2009, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft (with some help from other telescopes) has discovered close to 3,000 planets. They all come ...

Scientists officially call them circumbinary planets, but even they can’t help but dub them ‘Tatooine’ planets. The latest ‘Tatooine’ planet discovered is also ...

Scientists call it the Faint Young Sun Paradox. Around four billion years ago, the sun’s brightness was about three-quarters of what we see ...