A study published by astronomers at the Max Planck Institute has concluded that, based on observations made by the Kepler ...

New research reveals a fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system, altering our understanding of this unique system with three ...

Whenever the sun throws out a big solar storm, we’ve got the observatories and telescope to monitor it closely. Even storms ...

"If trying to explain how three super puffs formed in one system wasn’t challenging enough, now we have to explain a fourth ...

Scientists using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope sought to observe a planet beyond our solar system (an exoplanet) ...

The massive, violent flares are now known to emerge every 100 years—40 to 50 times more often than scientists once believed.

“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is ...

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density 'super-puff' planets has at least one more planet, according to new observations.

Scientists found a new planet in the Kepler-51 system. The planet is called Kepler-51e. It helps explain why other planets in ...

The discovery of Kepler-51e sheds light on the unusual transit patterns of the system's existing super-puff planets.