"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable? Could there really ...

As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and ...

Our quest to find a “second Earth” has long occupied scientists and dreamers alike. The possibility of another world resembling our own is not just ... Read more The post NASA Just Discovered a ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

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 ...

SEE ALSO: 5 Alien Planets That We Could Call Home This may not sound all that different from previous Kepler announcements showing off the spacecraft's ability to find hundreds of new planets in ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star. Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, ...

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