AMES, Iowa – An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system ...

This artist's concept shows the KOI-134 system, which a 2025 paper revealed to have two planets: KOI-134 b and KOI-134 c. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC) A new investigation into ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if Kepler 22-b suddenly appeared in our solar system, revealing the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a January 7 presentation at the American Astronomical Society’s 247th meeting in Phoenix, Federico Noguer, an undergraduate ...

An inside-out planetary system around the star LHS 1903 is turning everything that astronomers know about planet formation upside down.

Space-watchers saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, but now it’s official: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, by far the most successful planet-hunting telescope in history, isn’t coming back. Engineers ...

General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...