The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

They’re still looking for more in the Kepler data -- but after finding the planet known as Kepler-186f, “we can infer that other ones are likely to exist. And that’s going to be the job of ...

The search for extraterrestrial life is one of the most exciting frontiers of modern science. Thanks to recent discoveries of exoplanets like Gliese 581 g, Kepler-22 b, Kepler-186 f, and Kepler-452 b, ...

Explore the discovery of Kepler-139f, a super-Earth exoplanet 36 times Earth's mass, orbiting its star every 355 days. Learn ...

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius ...

The single outlier, a planet called EPIC 201238110.02, is quite a bit larger than Earth but still within the realm of what astronomers consider “Earth-like.” ...

American space agency NASA announced the discovery of a planetary system that isn't flat, has transit timing variations, and ...

Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...