Scientists said they weren’t sure why the Kepler-90 system has such a crowded field. Perhaps some of the planets formed farther out and were eventually drawn inward, they said.

Now, a team of researchers has shed new light on a seven-planet system in Kepler's ocean of data. The star is called Kepler 385, and it's about 4,670 light-years away.

The discovery of Kepler-35b and another twin sun planet, Kepler-34 b, was announced Jan. 11, 2012 and represent a new class of circumbinary planets. Alien Solar System of Kepler-20 NASA ...

Before Kepler outlined his laws of planetary motion in the early 17th century, humankind’s knowledge of the solar system and beyond was in its infancy and largely remained a mystery. At the time ...

NASA announced finding an Earth-like planet outside outside the solar system that could have have the right temperature to support life. As Brian Vastag reported: The search for Earth-like planets ...

Illustration of the Kepler-51 system and its inner three planets, which have unusually low density. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suggest that at least one more planet is ...

In fact, Kepler found that the most common type of planet doesn’t have an analog in our solar system at all. These are worlds that are larger than Earth, but smaller than Neptune , and we still ...

It’s been five years since NASA’s $600 million Kepler Space Telescope was launched to look for planets beyond our Solar System and while the quest to find a twin for Earth has so far been ...

A Fourth Planet in the Kepler-51 System Revealed by Transit Timing Variations. The Astronomical Journal , 2024; 168 (6): 294 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad83d3 Cite This Page : ...

Eight planets in Kepler-90 system found using machine learning "It's very possible that Kepler 90 has even more planets that we don't know about yet," NASA astronomer Andrew Vanderburg said.

Astronomers have discovered eight new potentially habitable planets beyond our solar system, including two that are the most similar to Earth of any discovered so far. First identified by NASA's ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope has detected the telltale signs of more than 1,200 possible planets orbiting suns outside our solar system.