AMES, Iowa – An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system ...

Scientists have discovered a distant solar system very much like our own, in which the orbits of all known planets lie in nearly the same plane and are aligned with the star's rotation. In recent ...

In 2015, NASA’s super powerful Kepler Space Telescope discovered the closest copy of Earth to date. It’s called Kepler-452.

This artist's concept shows the KOI-134 system, which a 2025 paper revealed to have two planets: KOI-134 b and KOI-134 c. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC) A new investigation into ...

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We’ve found lots of “habitable” worlds but we don’t know what factors are needed for life. There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other ...

The idea of a planet orbiting two suns has long captured both scientific curiosity and public imagination. Popularised by ...