Artwork: the Kepler-90 system is the first to tie with our Solar System in number of planets Nasa has found a distant star circled by eight planets, equal to the complement in our own Solar System.

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Image source: NASA/Daniel Rutter The newly discovered Kepler-385 includes a sun-like star at the center of it that is 10 percent larger and five percent hotter than our own solar system’s star.

The central star of the Kepler-385 system closely resembles our Sun but is about 10% larger and 5% hotter. Among its seven planets, the two innermost ones, only slightly larger than Earth ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it ... Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo came along, everyone thought the planets (that they knew about) revolved ...

Astronomers have announced the possible discovery of the first known moon outside our Solar System. This "exomoon ... was spotted in data from Nasa's Kepler spacecraft, and later observed using ...