and plenty of software solutions have been developed in the six years since the end of Kepler's primary mission to help facilitate crunching large sets of data to look for planets around other stars.

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

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Recently we learned about the exoplanet Kepler-186f, a potentially earthlike, potentially habitable world only around 500 ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

suggesting that more research is needed to understand how planets gather materials and elements during t... A new study published in Nature Astronomy proposes that TRAPPIST-1b, the innermost ...

NEW MILFORD – A new Planet Fitness location has opened its doors for business several months ahead of schedule in the former TJ Maxx space on Danbury Road. Planet Fitness will host a grand ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.