Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

May the faint chemical signals drifting through the atmosphere of a distant world be the long-sought message that we are not ...

A huge "super-Earth" with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable thing is, ...

The Kepler probe's focus is on finding another habitable planet. — -- NASA says we're on our way to discovering Earth 2.0. The Kepler Space Telescope has located a planet and star closely ...

At this time last year, the scientists working on Kepler, NASA’s fantastically successful planet-hunting space telescope, were ecstatic. The probe, launched in 2009, had originally been given just ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...

Natalie Batalha, a former project scientist for NASA’s Kepler Mission, will lead the audience on a journey to the stars, providing insight into future missions to search for lives beyond the Earth in ...

The number of confirmed exoplanets, or worlds orbiting distant suns, shot past 1,000 last week, according to the semi-official Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. That’s pretty heady stuff considering ...

There's something wrong with Kepler, the sun-orbiting spacecraft at the center of NASA's mission to identify Earth-like, habitable planets orbiting other stars. And if the space agency's engineers can ...

Since being launched into space in March 2009, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has been searching the Milky Way for planets that might sustain liquid water. Named after the German astronomer who discovered ...

My professional life began in the field of particle accelerators. I spent a combined total of seventeen years at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Palo Alto and the European particle physics ...