Led by Lehigh University professor Joshua Pepper, the team includes nearly 40 members in 10 countries across 4 continents

From a distance, these carbon planets would be difficult to tell apart from more Earth-like worlds. Their masses and physical sizes would be similar

This unusual phenomenon, predicted by the theory of General Relativity, was discovered by chance by a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias while analysing images of the Sculptor dwarf galaxy

Announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler

Just 40 light years from Earth, planets are best targets so far for search for extraterrestrial life

Paper shows for the first time just what “pessimism” or “optimism” mean when it comes to estimating the likelihood of advanced extraterrestrial life

The moon—provisionally designated S/2015 (136472) 1 and nicknamed MK 2—is more than 1,300 times fainter than Makemake

Researchers examined 32 low-mass stars using this technological upgrade at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii

Researchers discovered the planet's existence through mathematical modeling and computer simulations but have not yet observed the object directly

All of the planets in the catalog follow orbits oriented so the planet passes in front of their parent star, as seen from Earth