"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

The Kepler mission was conceived as a Discovery Program mission at the turn of the century and was approved as the tenth mission in the program in December 2001. At that time only 80 exoplanets ...

Using a 3D global climate computer model normally employed to study Earth's environment, the astronomers found that the white dwarf exoplanet was much warmer than the Kepler-62 exoplanet despite ...

Kepler-62e is one of the latest additions to the habitable exoplanet catalog, added April 18. The planet is 1.61 times the radius of Earth, although astronomers do not yet know its mass or what it ...

Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets and to identify 2,300 candidate planets now awaiting confirmation via further ...

The spacecraft is responsible for finding more than 2,600 exoplanets circling distant stars in far-off parts of the galaxy. There's poetry in Kepler's ability to make us feel both small and also ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the ... still has plenty of power to comb the heavens for undetected exoplanets. In order to spot these new worlds, scientists began sifting ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However ...

Using a 3D global climate computer model normally employed to study Earth’s environment, the astronomers found that the white dwarf exoplanet was much warmer than the Kepler-62 exoplanet despite ...

This more than doubles the number of validated exoplanets discovered by Kepler, said Timothy Morton, co-author of the study, during a press conference Tuesday. SEE ALSO: Death flash of an ...

Most of those observations were made by the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which for four consecutive years kept an eye on a small patch of sky containing a few hundred thousand stars.