CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – A record-tying eighth planet has been found in a faraway solar system, matching our own in number. Even more amazing, machines and not humans made the discovery. NASA ...

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has been searching for exoplanets, or planets that exist outside our own solar system, since it launched in 2009. Thursday it was announced that a previously undiscovered ...

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Every time we think we're in a class by ourselves, it's only a matter of time. Used to be our solar system had the most planets around a single star. But thanks to new data from NASA's Kepler ...

Only a handful of star systems have more than a single planet. With eight worlds, our solar system has long taken the prize for the biggest lineup. But no longer. Our corner of the galaxy now shares ...

Scientists applying artificial intelligence to data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an eighth planet around the star Kepler-90 — breaking the record for the star with the most ...

Used to be our solar system had the most planets around a single star. But thanks to new data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, we're now tied with the Kepler-90 system. Researchers recently uncovered ...