Quick look Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond our solar system that's about the size of the Earth's moon -- the first time they've found a planet smaller than any of the planets orbiting our ...

Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of ...

NASA’s Kepler observatory should be able to detect planetary moons – yet to be discovered – formed by far-away planetary collisions outside our Solar System, research by Amy Barr of the ...

Quick look NASA's Kepler space telescope has helped astronomers see a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting their host star at a severe tilt. Iowa State's Steve Kawaler ...

In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have introduced a groundbreaking method to map the ...

Ames is responsible for the ground system development, mission operations and science data analysis. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., managed the Kepler mission development.

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

Scientists analyzed famed astronomer Johannes Kepler’s 1607 sketches of sunspots to solve a mystery about the sun’s solar cycle that has persisted for centuries.

This is where Kepler’s observation comes in, and scientists discovered that this 417-year-old observation likely occurred at the tail-end Solar Cycle -13, rather than beginning of -14.

Back in the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to ...

None of the newly discovered planetary systems are like our solar system, though Kepler-33, a star that is older and bigger than the Sun, comes close in terms of sheer numbers. It has five planets ...