Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However, most data ...

White dwarfs, once thought lifeless, could host habitable planets. The James Webb Telescope is searching for atmospheric ...

Kepler-62f, an Earth-like planet, is considered a possible habitat for life. It might resemble Endor, with lush forests and life-supporting conditions.

Hidden in the Heavens: How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own Jason Steffen Princeton Univ. Press (2024) In the mid-1980s, NASA engineer William Borucki faced ...

Although the occurrence climaxed on Jan. 21 with a conjunction—close alignment—of Saturn and Mercury, the planetary parade ...

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. It is located about 1,200 light-years (370 parsecs ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...