Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary neighborhood. Where would this planet need to orbit within the Sun’s ...

AMES, Iowa – An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system ...

Scientists have discovered a distant solar system very much like our own, in which the orbits of all known planets lie in nearly the same plane and are aligned with the star's rotation. In recent ...

Imagine the potential for life and unique environmental conditions if the exoplanet Kepler-22b were located within our solar system. Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...