A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

The central star of the Kepler-385 system closely resembles our Sun but is about 10% larger and 5% hotter. Among its seven planets, the two innermost ones, only slightly larger than Earth ...

Far beyond the eight familiar planets in our solar system, countless bizarre and extreme worlds await discovery — and some ...

Kepler’s orbit is far out enough that it will never return to Earth or get close enough to anything else in the solar system to be a problem. It will likely spend the rest of eternity as a deep ...

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It takes Kepler-452b just 20 days longer to orbit its star than Earth does - making our year roughly the same length. All you need to know about planets in our solar system ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it ... Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along, everyone thought the planets (that they knew about) revolved ...