Olivier van Deuren’s painting of a young astronomer blends science, mysticism and ambitions of celestial proportions, Jin ...

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

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Using a newly developed tool to sift through data from the NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a team led by a Penn ...

It sits about six light-years from Earth and is known for its quick motion across our sky. For years, astronomers have wondered whether it might harbor planets that could help us understand how ...

Sepp Hochreiter, an early pioneer of the technology who runs an AI lab at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, has a different view, one that requires far less cash and computing power.

Ted: Back in the early 1600s Johannes Kepler came up with his third law ... hundreds of years of observations of the movements of the planets and Kepler derived them from all of these sorts of, you ...

A new set of data released by NASA's Kepler mission catalogs 219 newfound alien planet candidates. According to NASA, 10 of the new worlds appear to be rocky in the habitable zones of their stars ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. The four planets, each only about 20 ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. Astronomers have revealed new ...