Our quest to find a “second Earth” has long occupied scientists and dreamers alike. The possibility of another world ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 ...

Planets change orbit shape around Neptune’s size. Metal-rich stars help giant planets form. Eccentric orbits suggest chaotic ...

It's Earth 2.0." "Today the Earth is a little less lonely because there's a new kid on the block," said Jon Jenkins, Kepler data analysis lead at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California ...

Interestingly, Earth itself received a score of 0.829. However, the newly discovered planet, Kepler-442b, boasts a slightly ...

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

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA announced Tuesday it has discovered a planet that is a lot like Earth, and could possibly support life. Produced by Matthew Stuart Follow TI Video: On Facebook ...

For the thought that our solar system had planets travelling in circles around the Earth was forever debunked by Kepler and his laws of planetary motion. Born into an economically weak family in ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

It is to Kepler that we owe the discovery that all ... was also responsible for keeping the moon in orbit around the earth, and the planets in orbit around the sun. Thus the heavens and the ...