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

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

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, ...

Earth” located 560 light-years away in the Draco constellation, has left astronomers amazed by its immense size and unexpected composition. Weighing 17 times more than Earth, this rocky giant ...

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

As a young NASA scientist during the Apollo era, William Borucki helped design the heat shield that brought Apollo 11 ...

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

July's third quarter moon phase occurs at 8:38 EDT (0038 GMT) on July 17. At this moment, skywatchers in the northern ...

I learned that potential signs of life were discovered on an exoplanet called K2-18b, which is 120 light-years away from Earth.

Bremerton city councilmember Jeff Coughlin is running for mayor, and said he will fight for Bremerton's future success.

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