With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

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 ...

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 ...

An additional 1,284 objects spotted by NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler are confirmed planets, agency astronomers said today. That brings the total number of verified exoplanets from ...

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 ...

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?

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.

Though NASA’s Kepler space telescope officially “retired” in October 2018, scientists are still pouring over data from the iconic exoplanet hunter that operated for more than nine years. Most recently ...

Once astronomers know the mass and size of an exoplanet, they can calculate its density and bulk composition. In this case, Kepler-138b appears to be rocky, but more work will be required to ...

Kepler-1658b, orbiting with a period of just 3.8 days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by the Kepler space telescope in 2009. In 2019, astrophysicist Ashley Chontos used sound waves ...

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 ...