NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

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 ...

including citizen scientists using the website Planet Hunters, continued to sift through the existing Kepler light curves to find new exoplanets. A new mission called “K2” was drawn up and ...

The chance that a background star is affected this way by a planet is tens to hundreds of millions to one against. But there are hundreds of millions of stars towards the centre of our Galaxy. So ...

Are we alone in the universe? While no one can say for sure, space scientists know where to start looking—exoplanets. An ...

The cosmic "treasure trove" was revealed using data from NASA's Kepler Space ... rather than planets around stars like our sun,” Ian Crossfield, the lead author of the new study detailing ...

“We’re discovering new populations of planets that hadn’t been thought of before,” he noted. Kepler-10c is also odd for its age. Its star, and presumably the planet, is about 11 billion ...

The central star of the Kepler-385 system closely resembles our Sun but is about 10% larger and 5% hotter. Among its seven planets, the two innermost ones, only slightly larger than Earth ...

If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is inspired by one that actually exists. In the new film Ash, director Flying ...