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

The newly discovered planet, named Kepler-51e, was revealed through subtle yet telling anomalies in the transit of one of the system’s previously known planets.This detection adds a new layer of ...

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 ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed ... Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets ...

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.