NASA's Kepler Space Telescope may have saved the best for last. Astronomers combing over data collected by the telescope before its retirement in 2018 have found a system of seven planets being ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

If you’re looking for Earthlike planets around other stars — places about the size and temperature of our own planet, where life could in theory be found — it might seem like a letdown to stumble ...

The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date. “This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler,” said Ellen ...

A new planetary member of the Kepler-10 solar system was announced today. Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, members of the Kepler science team confirmed a new planet, dubbed Kepler-10c.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope discovered a system of seven "sweltering" planets surrounding a star that's hotter than our own sun. According ...

This image from the paper is a visual representation of the planets in their abbreviated catalogue, showing planets by size and stellar temperature. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: ...

Engineers-turned-first responders nursed NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler observatory back to stable condition after it unexpectedly slipped into emergency mode 75 million miles from Earth last week, ...

The Kepler Explorer team includes (left to right): Eric Lopez, Kyle McKinley, Jonathan Fortney, John Peters, and Caroline Morley. Kepler Explorer challenges users to design a planet that matches the ...

NASA's prolific Kepler space observatory, which has found signs of thousands of alien planets, will keep hunting strange new worlds for at least four more years, the space agency announced Wednesday ...

The discovery of a strange new world about the size of Earth's moon has shattered the record for the smallest known alien planet, scientists say. The newfound alien planet Kepler-37b is the first ...