AMES, Iowa – An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system ...

Astronomers have identified the most Earth like exoplanet yet, orbiting a sunlike star in the habitable zone 1,400 light years away. It is a snapshot of how far the search for life has come, and how ...

Scientists have discovered a distant solar system very much like our own, in which the orbits of all known planets lie in nearly the same plane and are aligned with the star's rotation. In recent ...