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

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

The Kepler spacecraft, which launched in March 2009, finds alien planets by noting the tiny brightness dips caused when these bodies cross their host stars' faces from the telescope's perspective.

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

The first file transferred over the optical connection was a recent picture of Kepler’s global team gathered near its headquarters in Toronto, Canada. In the first week of testing, the company ...

Schlichting is confident that the Kepler spacecraft will reveal a number of ringed alien planets. "Given that Kepler has found 1,000 extrasolar planet candidates, the chances that we would find rings ...