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 ...

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According to new research using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, about half the stars similar in temperature to our Sun could have a rocky planet capable of supporting liquid water on its ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Artist’s impression of Kepler. Credit ... 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 ...

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 ...

the total number of confirmed extrasolar planets has increased to more than 5000 with new discoveries being made on an almost daily basis. We now know that the population of exoplanets in our Galaxy ...