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 ...

Astrum Has NASA's Kepler discovered any exoplanets that may harbour life? Posted: March 4, 2025 | Last updated: March 4, 2025 The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially ...

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 ...

A new set of data released by NASA's Kepler mission catalogs 219 newfound alien planet candidates. According to NASA, 10 of the new worlds appear to be rocky in the habitable zones of their stars ...

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 ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

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

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 ...

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

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...