Nasa has discovered over 6,000 exoplanets - planets outside our Solar System and continue to search for Earth-like worlds that could support life.

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

The orbits of a seven-planet system discovered in Kepler Space Telescope data has been sonified. Credit: Bishop’s University / Jason Rowe / NASA Ames Research Center ...

An international research team led by researcher Gu Shenghong from the Yunnan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...

As of Monday, Sept. 15, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is 38% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily ...

This planet, located about 700 light-years from Earth, is known for its remarkably short orbital period and extreme surface ...