The solar system where the new planet was discovered isn't new. "We already knew that Kepler-90 hosted seven planets," Vanderburg said during the press conference.

NASA's updated catalog of planet candidates from the Kepler mission includes a solar system containing seven planets that could be relatively similar to Earth. Few planetary systems ...

Explore Kepler observatory discoveries revealing a unique solar system of six tightly packed planets orbiting a sun-like star.

NASA scientists working on the Kepler Mission have discovered an unprecedented solar system, in which two planets with vastly different densities and ...

With the help of artificial intelligence, scientists scouring data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an eighth planet around the star known as Kepler-90.

The Kepler space telescope has unearthed the oldest known solar system. Five tiny rocky worlds snuggle up to the 11.2-billion-year-old Kepler 444, a cool red star more than twice as old as our sun.

Using NASA’s orbiting Kepler observatory, astronomers have found a complete solar system of six planets orbiting a sun-like star… and it’s really weird: five of the six planets huddle closer ...