Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable? Could there really ...

All good things must come to an end, on Earth and even in space. NASA announced on Tuesday that the Kepler mission — which has transformed how we understand planets outside of our solar system ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the purpose of finding new objects ...

NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 ...

As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and ...

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

BYUH students share their understanding of exoplanets and what humanity’s enduring hunt for life outside the solar system ...