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 newly discovered Kepler-425b is the smallest planet to date discovered ... that proved other suns host planets, the Kepler exoplanet explorer has discovered a planet and star which most ...

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 ...

Ten years after the Kepler Space Telescope launched and revolutionized exoplanet discovery, Kepler-1658 b has finally been confirmed as the first exoplanet that the mission ever detected.

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable?

Here's a look at that closest Earth twin in pictures. This artist's illustration depicts the surface of the newfound exoplanet Kepler-452b, a planet about 60 percent wider than Earth that lies ...

Now, NASA has announced that researchers have identified 1,284 new exoplanets—more than doubling the number of faraway planets that scientists previously confirmed. Kepler was launched into ...

Here’s how it works. The first exoplanet candidate ever detected by NASA's late and lamented Kepler space telescope has finally been confirmed, 10 years after the iconic instrument's launch.

Meet Earth’s closest known exo-relative, Kepler 78b. First discovered earlier this year, scientists today confirmed that it’s like Earth in more ways than one—Kepler 78b is rocky, about the ...

Combing through a backlog of data collected several years ago by NASA’s now defunct Kepler space telescope, they ran across a previously overlooked gem in the cosmos: an extrasolar planet, or ...

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 ...