That spacecraft, the Kepler Space Telescope, remains humanity’s most ... 2009 — relates the story of Kepler and its surprising discoveries. Kepler detected planets by identifying the dimming ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

NASA's Pandora mission, launching in fall 2025, will study the atmospheres of over 20 exoplanets, focusing on clouds, hazes, ...

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

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

It’s funny how the God experts are also the ones advocating for mass deportations from this “Divided States of America.” I ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...