Heroes of Space: William Borucki

He persisted with the idea that we could detect extrasolar planets and was proved right

The water vapour find on ‘habitable’ exoplanet K2-18 b is exciting — but it’s no Earth twin

But who says the confirmation of alien life will come on Earth 2.0?

The ‘Alopeke instrument has deciphered an exoplanet mystery to reveal Kepler-13b’s true form

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has uncovered an unusual category of supernova explosion

A new study has shown that alien worlds tend to have shorter orbital periods when swinging around their metal-rich stellar parents

A new world has been found, bumping the Kepler-90 system up to eight planets

The alien worlds discovered so far show an unexplained gap between two types of exoplanet

The winds on HAT-P-7b are changing significantly, helping us to understand the magnetic fields of heated gas planets

Astronomers and geoscientists have joined forces using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to find out what makes a rocky planet Earth-like

Astronomers have long wondered what determines the rotation rates of these stars

Observations of our planet may have brought us a step closer in our search for living organisms elsewhere in the universe

All About Space takes a look at Earth’s newly discovered cousin

Super Earths, hot Jupiters and mini Neptunes – these are just some of the exoplanets that have been turned up in our search

How do we know for sure that this distant world is an exoplanet and not a comet or an asteroid?

Will the fruits of the teamwork between space and ground telescope bring us closer to finding Earth 2.0?

With plans to extend its mission, could the exoplanet hunter be given a second shot at science?