Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Astronomers still can't rule out the presence of an alien megastructure around Kepler star KIC 8462852 --- located nearly 1500 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus. Strange dips in the star ...

Scientists have used data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope to discover a “vampire” star “sucking” the life out of another star. Experts discovered a surprising “super-outburst” from a dwarf nova, a ...

Illustration of a white dwarf siphoning material from its companion star. Over time, the white dwarf star can no longer support its own weight and implodes, creating a Type Ia supernova. NASA's Kepler ...

In a first, the alien planet hunting telescope Kepler has seen a bright flash of a shockwave sent out by an exploding star at the end of its life. The shockwave was propelled out into the universe by ...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space observatory has turned out to be a jack-of-all-trades — a multipurpose spacecraft that has gone beyond its alien world mandate to tackle some key star mysteries. In ...

On Feb. 22, astronomers announced that the ultra-cool dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1, hosts a total of seven Earth-size planets that are likely rocky, a discovery made by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You're probably all too familiar with the story of KIC 8462852, a star that's been the focus of ...

The artist's concept depicts Kepler-186f , the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone—a range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the ...