Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun ...

The findings come courtesy of NASA's pioneering Kepler space telescope, our eye in the sky when it comes to spotting potentially habitable planets beyond our solar system. It's designed to find ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft should have been rendered useless by a 2013 hardware failure, but instead its secondary mission -- called K2 -- has just yielded its first major discovery in the form of ...

The only sure thing about the star, called KIC 8462852, seems to be uncertainty. Spotted by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, the strange light pattern emitted from the star has puzzled many ...

The early-17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler defined the basic rules governing planetary motion. The basis for everything we understand about the orbits of the planets comes from the work of ...

The distant world was already famous in astronomical circles as the first exoplanet candidate spotted by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which discovered thousands of planets beyond our solar ...

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