There’s a rule of thumb that can come in handy when you hear about new planet discoveries from the Kepler space mission. If they’re talking about a handful of new worlds orbiting distant stars, it’s ...

Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show "Pluribus" brings the world together, and Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn, "Better Call Saul") wants none of it. After an RNA-altering, virus-like "psychic glue" agent ...

Data mining the first two years of results from NASA’s Kepler planet-finding probe, using a statistical technique based on the discovery that multi-planet systems are more common than once thought, ...

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...

IMAGE: Among thousands of known exoplanets, MIT astronomers have flagged three that are actually stars. Pictured is an artist’s interpretation of stars and planets. CREDIT: NASA A new study published ...

Space-watchers saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, but now it’s official: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, by far the most successful planet-hunting telescope in history, isn’t coming back. Engineers ...

Schmitt, Joseph R., Agol, Eric, Deck, Katherine M., Rogers, Leslie A., Gazak, J. Zachary, Fischer, Debra A., Wang, Ji, Holman, Matthew J., Jek, Kian J., Margossian ...