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Since the 1990s, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets – planets outside our solar system, orbiting other stars. NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope – named for American astronomer Nancy...

In the past, we’ve reported about how the Roman Space Telescope is potentially going to be able to detect hundreds of thousands of exoplanets using a technique known as microlensing....

The hunt is on! NASA has begun a quest to select its next big instrument to study the cosmos. Observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope have revolutionized humanity’s view...

An eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a distant, Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. The planet dubbed Kepler-90i is a super-hot,...