Last week I held an interview with Dr. Sara Seager - a lead astronomer who has contributed vastly to the…
It was just last week that we reported on the oh-so-close approach to 1,000 confirmed exoplanets discovered thus far, and…
Kepler may not be hanging up its planet-hunting hat just yet. Even though two of its four reaction wheels --…
It's time for another Weekly Space Hangout, where a dedicated team of space journalists run down all the big stories…
The latest exciting undertaking in exoplanet research is the search for exomoons. A team led by Dr. David Kipping at…
As Earthlings, we're so used to thinking about planets being in simple orbits around a single star. But the Sun…
Overheated and overinflated, hot Jupiters are some of the strangest extrasolar planets to be discovered by the Kepler mission... and…
The Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range…
This might be the most exciting exoplanet news yet. An international team of scientists analyzing data from NASA's Kepler mission…
Captain Kirk has nothing on the "strange new worlds" the Kepler space telescope has found. NASA's planet-probing orbiting observatory launched…