The planet mentioned in the first episode of the new Apple TV series Pluribus really exists and it's been used in a different ...

Anyone who's ever tried to make a perfect snowball has some inkling how difficult it is to create a sphere. Even nature has a hard time of it. But a star discovered by NASA's Kepler Mission, dubbed ...

The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

On Feb. 22, astronomers announced that the ultra-cool dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1, hosts a total of seven Earth-size planets that are likely rocky, a discovery made by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in ...

It's easy to imagine clone armies, lightsabers, and starships on some of these very real planets.

The artist's concept depicts Kepler-186f , the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone—a range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the ...

Astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected. The discovery was made using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and its extended K2 mission, as well as the W. M. Keck ...

Spotting new exoplanets with NASA's Kepler space telescope is nothing new. Google even managed to automate the process with machine learning. Just add them to the pile with the 3,700 other exoplanets, ...