The first planetary system discovered was nothing like our own. It was more like a zombie solar system. Appropriately named ...

Kepler-385, than Mercury's average distance from the sun. "All of the planets are 'fried' more intensely than any planet in our solar system," said astronomer Jack Lissauer of NASA's Ames Research ...

far more than any celestial body within our solar system. Intriguingly, all seven planets in this newly discovered system, named Kepler-385, stand out for their unique characteristics. They are ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and ...

Artwork: the Kepler-90 system is the first to tie with our Solar System in number of planets Nasa has found a distant star circled by eight planets, equal to the complement in our own Solar System.

It’s the ultimate game of find a needle in the haystack. One NASA scientist is betting on AI to help expedite the search ...

Back in 2013, NASA announced Kepler was irreparably damaged following a series of critical system ... number of planets around each star; allowing us to virtually image distant solar systems.

A steam-shrouded planet unlike any we’ve seen before has been detected nearly 100 light years away. The planet, known as GJ ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds ... almost certainly rendering the tiny, fast-moving planet uninhabitable. The exoplanet Kepler-452 b appears so similar to our home planet that ...

Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along ... Jupiter is the biggest planet in our Solar System, and it gets its name from the leader of the ancient Roman gods.

BEIJING, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- An international research team has created an AI-based algorithm to discover five ultra-short-period planets with diameters smaller than Earth's and orbital periods ...

The Kepler telescope, launched in 2009 to discover Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars, collected data on 170,000 ...