You may have seen it on posters in classrooms or at museums: all eight planets in our solar system perfectly lined up. But is it something that you will see within your lifetime?

Another eight-planet solar system has been discovered orbiting a star 2,500 light years away called the Kepler-90 System. It was first believed to be made up of seven planets.

This planet, Kepler 90i, brought the total number of planets circling its star to eight – just like our solar system’s octuplets.

If you are a budding astronomer or simply enjoy watching the sky through a telescope, you probably have an interest in all of the planets in our solar system. There are a total of eight planets ...

Looks like our solar system isn’t the only one out there with eight planets circling around a single star. NASA scientists, along with Google engineers, used artificial intelligence to discover ...

Our @NASAKepler mission's search for new planets teamed with machine learning to discover another solar system with an 8th planet that is 2,500 light-years away.

You may have seen it on posters in classrooms or at museums: all eight planets in our solar system perfectly lined up. But is it something that you will see within your lifetime?