Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

AI tools are transforming how we observe the world around us—and even the stars beyond. Recently, an international team ...

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

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction ... Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method ...

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

“Today, the Earth is a little less lonely, because there’s a new kid on the block,” Jon Jenkins, the Kepler project’s data analysis lead, told reporters at a news conference last week (July 23), ...

This is an artist's rendition of the Kepler-35 planet system, in which a Saturn-size planet orbits a pair of stars. The larger star is similar to the size of the Sun, while the smaller star is 79 ...

Kepler’s crystal ponderings laid the groundwork ... crystals and the rest of the universe? Keep reading Science News!

Kepler had originally intended to become a Lutheran ... He wanted nothing more than that his science, especially his cosmology, would help to convince people of the existence of God.

He works at the Kepler Science Office on the whole instrument/detector system. Just 20 years ago, astronomers could only speculate about whether planets were a happy commonplace in the universe, or ...