Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet discovery space and investigating the nature of dark energy. However, since those ...

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...

Kepler 62e is a super-Earth planet (about 60% bigger ... There remain many things we don’t know about Kepler 62f, however. An icy exoplanet. Kepler 62f is the second planet in the Kepler-62 ...

But on an exoplanet whose surface is mostly water ... but the ice at the bottom of the ocean on a world like Kepler-62e or TRAPPIST-1e (if they have oceans) is probably a type of ice called ...

The Kepler Space Telescope was retired in 2018 after a nine-year mission that saw it discover an incredible 2,600 confirmed exoplanets, kicking off the modern era of exoplanet research.

NASA Kepler's Space Telescope ventured into worlds unknown to look for exoplanets that are in other systems and galaxies, and one of its earliest discoveries is the Kepler-1658b. Now, news ...

The doomed world appears destined to spiral closer and closer to its expanding star until they collide, obliterating the first exoplanet discovered by the Kepler space telescope. The discovery offers ...

The doomed world appears destined to spiral closer and closer to its expanding star until they collide, obliterating the first exoplanet discovered by the Kepler space telescope. The discovery ...

According to Space.Com's latest report, the new exoplanet discovered by Kepler came from location 17,000 light-years away from Earth. Because of this, the new Jupiter-like exoplanet, called K2 ...

A review of early data returned by NASA's Kepler mission has revealed one of the most Earth-like exoplanets discovered so far. Located 300 light-years away, the new planet is slightly larger than ...

Among known exoplanets, however ... Studies indicate that water likely covers Kepler-62e in a deep global ocean. And although sibling Kepler-62f also may have a large component of water, it ...