An orrery is a moving model of a planetary system. Daniel Fabrycky, University of California at Santa Cruz, created two animated orrerys to display the 1,235 Kepler planet candidates. 1,235 Planet ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescopespotted thousands of worlds during its four-year mission, proving that our galaxy is filled with planets. But even more surprising is what the Kepler database highlights ...

Fed up of making music? Then point your browser to Kepler's Orrery, a Java applet that uses a gravity simulator to create generative music When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- An awesome video created by an astronomy student manages to capture thousands of planets in hundreds systems in all their wonderful "wondrousness" -- if that is even a word ...

In the Milky Way galaxy, it is planets, planets everywhere. This dizzying display shows the 1471 known and candidate exoplanets in multi-planet systems that NASA’s Kepler space telescope has helped us ...

NASA's Kepler Mission is the gift that keeps on giving. The mission launched in 2009 and has found well over 1000 exoplanets (planets around stars other than our own) to date. These planets come in ...

The orbiting Kepler telescope is all about the numbers. How many stars have planets? How many have multiple planets? What sizes do they come in? How many of these planets are about the same size as ...

On Monday, NASA’s Kepler mission added 833 worlds to its growing list of candidate planets, bringing the total tally to 3,538. Now, two recently released visualizations depict every. Single. One of ...