Kepler space telescope

Astronomers are watching an exoplanet slowly fall into its star

This time, when the world ends, it's for real.

By Cassidy Ward | 

3 months ago

Another candidate exomoon found: An alien moon orbiting an alien world!

If it exists the moon is far larger than Earth.

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

366 more exoplanets we never knew existed have emerged from the dark

We know of less than five thousand exoplanets floating around, but that number has just gone up!

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

1 year ago

Sorry Tatooine, but this world in a galaxy far, far away has three suns

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

2 years ago

Slice into this 'Pi Planet' that swiftly orbits its star every 3.14 days

By Jeff Spry | 

2 years ago

Could we live on Kepler-22b, like Raised by Wolves' human colonists?

By Cassidy Ward | 

2 years ago

So that’s where all the exomoons are hiding, at least according to their shadows

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

2 years ago

If this alien planet exists, it might be Earth-like. Or it might not.

By Phil Plait | 

2 years ago

Old Kepler data reveals a planet so eerily similar to Earth, something could be crawling on it

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

2 years ago

This eagle-eyed college student just discovered 17 new exoplanets

By Jeff Spry | 

3 years ago