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 ...

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

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, ...

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.

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

Scientists have revealed that radar systems at airports and military bases would shine out like cosmic beacons for any watching civilisations. This means airports like Gatwick and Heathrow could be ...

An international research team led by the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has discovered two new planets performing ...

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