Astronomers have just unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could significantly impact the search for life beyond our ...

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University ...

The planet, dubbed Kepler-1649c, is a rocky world that’s six per cent larger than Earth, according to findings published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters earlier this month.

The driving force behind NASA's prolific planet-hunting Kepler mission is retiring, ending a 53-year career with the space agency. Bill Borucki came up with the idea for the Kepler observatory in ...

In a system like Kepler-47, the stars themselves are also moving, orbiting the same common centre of mass as the planets, and orbiting each other — in the case of Kepler-47, every 7.45 days.