Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery in the Kepler-139 star system, uncovering an alien planet that had previously evaded detection. The newly identified exoplanet, Kepler-139f, is a giant ...

This makes it 35 times the mass of Earth and a year on its planet lasts 355 days, the discoverers noted in their findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet was detected after ...

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

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...

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 ...

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

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

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope Kepler. It […] ...

Using modern techniques, researchers have re-examined Johannes Kepler's half-forgotten sunspot drawings and revealed previously hidden information about the solar cycles before the grand solar ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...

Three exoplanets were hidden away in 2018 Kepler Space Telescope data, until now.

With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers discovered what may be the last three planets that the Kepler Space Telescope saw before it was retired.