The Kepler-16 star system is just 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan). Because it's so close, it should be visible to many amateur skywatchers, researchers said.

Scientists detected the new planet in the Kepler-16 system: a pair of orbiting stars that eclipse each other from our point of view on Earth. A primary eclipse occurs when the larger star is partially ...

The discovery is the Kepler-444 system, which contains five small rocky planets that formed over 11 billion years ago. As far as the Kepler data was concerned, Kepler-444 was simply a single star ...

A new planet found last fall may be orbiting two stars, but it's far from a real-life Tatooine. Dubbed Kepler-16b, the world is a cold, Saturn-size gas giant with little chance of hosting desert ...

the host stars in Kepler-34b are more Sun-like than the Kepler-16 system. These observations indicate that giant exoplanets orbiting two stars may be fairly common, occurring in perhaps one ...

Before Johannes Kepler’s Third Law, the motions of the planets around the Sun were a mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system appeared to have little in common with the planets of our own solar system today. But a new study using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope ...