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 ...

Recently, the field of astronomy has been quite lively, as new discoveries from Kepler data have directly overturned our previous understanding of planetary orbits!

Abstract: A systematic method to find short unstable periodic orbits embedded in chaotic attractors is proposed. The method is based on the construction of symbolic representations of trajectories, ...

Six hundred and thirty-five light years away from Earth, there is a world that seems to promise something almost unimaginable ...

MIAMI -- The Phillies’ new-look outfield is making good on its newfound security. After manager Rob Thomson appeared to settle on a consistent outfield platoon against righties, each of the ...

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