A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...

The discovery of Kepler-35b and another twin sun planet, Kepler-34 b, was announced Jan. 11, 2012 and represent a new class of circumbinary planets. Alien Solar System of Kepler-20 NASA ...

They’re still looking for more in the Kepler data -- but after finding the planet known as Kepler-186f, “we can infer that other ones are likely to exist. And that’s going to be the job of ...

The red dwarf star Kepler-138 and its planets lie some 200 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Lyra. Three planets, Kepler-138b, Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d, circle their star ...

The Kepler telescope, which was designed to search for planets like those found in the Kepler-385 system, stopped its primary observations in 2013, and conducted an extended mission until 2018.

The new planet - named Kepler-22b - has key aspects it shares with Earth. It circles a star that could be the twin of our sun and at just about the same distance.

Previously, the two most Earth-like planets known were Kepler-186f, which is 1.1 times the size of Earth, and Kepler-62f, which is 1.4 times as big. Earth-Like Neighborhood ...

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 ...

However, it is unclear if Kepler-51e is also a super puff planet, because the researchers have not observed a transit of ...