The discovery marks the first solar system to tie with our solar system in the number of planets orbiting one star. "The Kepler-90 star system is like a mini version of our solar system.

A sun-like star with 8 planets scrunched around it NASA has found our solar system’s twin more than 2500 light-years away. Using data from the Kepler space telescope, researchers have found an ...

You have seen the posters of all eight planets in a row. Reality is a bit different.

Astronomers used NASA’s Tess and the European Space Agency’s Cheops, two planet hunting satellites, to locate the system of planets revolving around a single star.. But for those hoping and ...

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...

While astronomers know of 40 to 50 in-sync solar systems, none have as many planets in such perfect step or as bright a star as this one, Palle said. READ MORE: Explosions end 2nd test flight of ...

Will all 8 planets in our solar system ever perfectly align? ... That date will change if astronomers ever identify another planet in our solar system and have to add that to alignment possibilities.