Space company Kepler Communications has raised an oversubscribed US$60M Series B to provide it with a capital injection for the continued scaling of its on-orbit satellite communications network. This ...

If our Moon suddenly vanished, Earth would already face dramatic consequences. But replacing it with entire alien worlds ...

"Exomoons are so far away that we cannot see them directly, even with the most powerful modern telescopes," said Dr. René Heller, who is an astrophysicist at Max Planck and lead author of the study.

Orbital properties of the 70 cool giants. A comparison of the derived orbital eccentricities from this work (y-axis) versus the orbital periods (previously known) for our planetary candidates sample.

Comparison of the relative sizes of several Kepler circumbinary planets, from the smallest, Kepler-47 b, to the largest, Kepler-1647 b. Kepler-1647 b is substantially larger than any of the previously ...