NASA’s orbiting Kepler telescope has discovered an unlikely pair of planets orbiting a distant star. One is small and rocky, the other is large and gaseous. What makes them unusual is that both are ...

NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered a planet that orbits two suns, just like Luke Skywalker's homeworld of Tatooine. Luke Westaway Senior editor Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

Although the Kepler space telescope already past its expected lifespan, NASA is trying to keep it alive and on its planet-finding mission. NASA's Kepler space telescope has found more than 2,700 ...

Despite having discovered more exoplanets than any other telescope, Kepler has been retired for the very simple reason that ...

Kepler-186f orbits an M dwarf star in the constellation Cygnus. More importantly, it's the first confirmed Earth-size, potentially habitable planet elsewhere in the universe. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

For most of his career, Geoff Marcy never thought he'd find any extrasolar planets. But that's all changed. Marcy is one of the lead astronomers sifting through the Kepler data, and has been credited ...

Spotting new exoplanets with NASA's Kepler space telescope is nothing new. Google even managed to automate the process with machine learning. Just add them to the pile with the 3,700 other exoplanets, ...

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, a team of astronomers led by Dimitri Veras at the University of Warwick has observed a white ...