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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have announced the possible discovery of the first known moon outside our Solar System ... but with 10 times the mass. The object was spotted in data from Nasa's Kepler spacecraft ...

A team of astronomers has potentially discovered the first known moon beyond the Solar System ... of Jupiter but with 10 times the mass. The signal was detected by Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope ...