NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the purpose of finding new objects ...

Are we alone in the universe? While no one can say for sure, space scientists know where to start looking—exoplanets. An ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

including citizen scientists using the website Planet Hunters, continued to sift through the existing Kepler light curves to find new exoplanets. A new mission called “K2” was drawn up and ...

The cosmic "treasure trove" was revealed using data from NASA's Kepler Space ... rather than planets around stars like our sun,” Ian Crossfield, the lead author of the new study detailing ...

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is inspired by one that actually exists. In the new film Ash, director Flying ...

A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a near-identical twin of Jupiter orbiting a star at ...

“We’re discovering new populations of planets that hadn’t been thought of before,” he noted. Kepler-10c is also odd for its age. Its star, and presumably the planet, is about 11 billion ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...