On Thursday, NASA and Google announced the discovery of an eighth planet in the Kepler-90 system, located 2,545 light-years from Earth. While we’re excited about another exoplanet — and the cutting ...

Dec. 14 (UPI) --NASA scientists have found a planetary system with as many planets as our own. "Scientists have found for the first time eight planets in a distant planetary system," Paul Hertz, ...

Researchers used data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope to discover an eighth planet orbiting a star known as Kepler-90. The planet, dubbed Kepler-90i, is a hot, rocky planet that ...

Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth. The planet ...

Looks like our solar system isn't the only one out there with eight planets circling around a single star. >> Read more trending news Our @NASAKepler mission's search for new planets teamed with ...

NASA's exoplanet program includes many different components, from current ground-based telescopes and space-based observatories to future missions. NASA's Kepler space telescope notices the slight dip ...

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered more than 2,300 exoplanets since its 2009 launch. Now, with the help of machine learning technology from Google, the space agency says it has spotted an ...

Eight planets circle our sun (sorry, Pluto), but our solar system is no longer unique in that number. NASA recently announced the discovery of an eighth planet circling the star Kepler-90, tying our ...

Kepler-90 is a distant star system residing around 2,545 light years away from us that NASA now contends has our solar system tied for the highest number of known planets orbiting a host star; eight ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Last week, NASA dropped a bombshell that it's Kepler mission — the ...

Before a Google machine learning program discovered an eighth planet in an exoplanet system using NASA spacecraft observations, the only other known system with as many planets was our own. Kepler has ...

If you have an emotional attachment to our Solar System’s distinctions, you may want to look away. We’ve found another star system with eight planets, tying our own mark. Oh, and a Google ...