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 ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope is discovering alien planets again. The prolific spacecraft has spotted its first new alien planet since being hobbled by a malfunction in May 2013, researchers ...

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 ...