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Imagine standing on the surface of an alien world nearly 600 light years away from Earth. The sky glows dim red instead of blue. Strange plants sway in the cold wind. Water glimmers in the distance.

News on the exoplanet front has been pretty excellent as of late. NASA’s Kepler space telescope has found 132 confirmed exoplanets and a further 2,740 candidates. But the winning streak was broken ...

When exoplanets come up, we're usually adding to the total number of known worlds beyond our solar system, but not today. MIT astronomers applied the latest astronomical data to Kepler's archive of ...

High-contrast imaging with Keck/NIRC2 reveals that KOI-1623A has a close companion with a separation of 0.704±0.002 arcsec, consisting of a slightly evolved G-type primary and a K-dwarf secondary, ...

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density "super-puff" planets has at least one more planet, according to new research led by researchers from Penn State and Osaka University. The ...

Swipe Down for Full Video Story Six hundred and thirty five light years from Earth lies a world that sounds almost too good ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However, most data ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

IMAGE: Among thousands of known exoplanets, MIT astronomers have flagged three that are actually stars. Pictured is an artist’s interpretation of stars and planets. CREDIT: NASA A new study published ...

The other subject is Kepler-62, a "main sequence" star at a similar phase in its evolution as our sun. Using a 3D global climate computer model normally employed to study Earth's environment, the ...