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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find ...

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 ...

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.