The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system appeared to have little in common with the planets of our own solar system today. But a new study using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope suggests ...

When NASA scientists began planning the Kepler mission, humans didn’t know of a single planet outside of our solar system. But by the time the roving space telescope retired, on October 30, it had ...

A hot, rocky planet discovered using the Kepler space telescope is the smallest ever found outside our solar system. The new planet, called Kepler-37b, has a radius less than a third the size of Earth ...

This image from the paper is a visual representation of the planets in their abbreviated catalogue, showing planets by size and stellar temperature. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: ...

NASA's exoplanet program includes many different components, from current ground-based telescopes and space-based observatories to future missions. NASA's Kepler space telescope notices the slight dip ...

Our solar system is no longer the sole record-holder for most known planets circling a star. An artificial intelligence algorithm sifted through data from the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope and ...

We’re not alone. At least when it comes to solar systems with the same number of major planets as ours. NASA today announced details about the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, ...