The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it ...

BYUH students share their understanding of exoplanets and what humanity’s enduring hunt for life outside the solar system ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

As previously reported, thanks to the massive trove of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler mission, we now have a good idea of what kinds of planets are out there, where they orbit, and how common ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

Using a 3D global climate computer model normally employed to study Earth's environment, the astronomers found that the white dwarf exoplanet was much warmer than the Kepler-62 exoplanet despite ...

For the study, the researchers used computer models to compare Earth-like exoplanets each orbiting a white dwarf star and the main-sequence K-dwarf star, Kepler-62, both of which exhibit temperatures ...

Blue Origin will have an all-female crew that’s traveling into space from the company’s launch site in West Texas. Katy Perry ...

Using a 3D global climate computer model normally employed to study Earth's environment, the astronomers found that the white dwarf exoplanet was much warmer than the Kepler-62 exoplanet despite ...