Kepler was one of the most successful ... facilitate crunching large sets of data to look for planets around other stars. One such system that has been around for a while is the Lomb-Scargle ...

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Follow wild stories of mysterious creatures, ancient civilizations, how tech impacts our world in unseen ways, and the endless surprises our planet has to offer. These are the unbelievable stories ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along ... Jupiter is the biggest planet in our Solar System, and it gets its name from the leader of the ancient Roman gods.

Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. During this two-month campaign, Kepler ...

Every other solar system planet was named for a Greek or Roman ... Thanks to instruments such as NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have found more than 3,800 planets orbiting other ...

There are two odd gaps in our solar system: the gap in size between ... within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft.

DALLASIt's only when the big guns Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler came along that our ... you come to the most incredible planet in our solar system. A place that 6.8 billion people might find ...