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.

But that all changed on 14 December 2017 with the announcement of a new addition to the Kepler-90 system. With Kepler-90i, our solar system was no longer alone. There was a confirmed second ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. While looking at compiled data from NASA’s now-retired Kepler space telescope ...