NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The system, known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the ...

NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered a planet that orbits two suns, just like Luke Skywalker's homeworld of Tatooine. Luke Westaway Senior editor Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

SEATTLE —NASA has discovered the smallest planet ever seen beyond our solar system — a rocky world just 1.4 times larger than Earth — using its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The planet, ...

The planets of our solar system move in ellipses. We've known this, so we are told, ever since Johannes Kepler devised his laws of planetary motion in the early 1600s. While it's true that orbits are ...

Although the Kepler space telescope already past its expected lifespan, NASA is trying to keep it alive and on its planet-finding mission. NASA's Kepler space telescope has found more than 2,700 ...

Researchers have uncovered a bizarre 'compacted' solar system with planets tightly spaced together. Located about 1,100 light years away, Kepler-80, named for the NASA telescope that discovered it, ...

Since rocketing into space in 2009, NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has discovered more than 4,500 confirmed or candidate worlds, in the process reshaping our entire view of the prospects ...

A remarkable planetary system discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission has six planets around a Sun-like star, including five small planets in tightly packed orbits. Astronomers at the University of ...

Numerous telescopes and techniques have been used to find and study extrasolar planets, but none has been more successful than NASA's Kepler space telescope. Kepler has discovered most of the known ...