The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. So far in the search for life elsewhere in the universe, astronomers have found scores of large planets.

SEATTLE – NASA has discovered the smallest planet ever seen beyond our solar system – a rocky world just 1.4 times larger than Earth – using its planet-hunting Kepler observatory. The planet, called ...

SEATTLE —NASA has discovered the smallest planet ever seen beyond our solar system — a rocky world just 1.4 times larger than Earth — using its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The planet, ...

[UPDATE (January 15, 2011): Mea culpa. It’s getting hard to keep up with all the exoplanets being found now, and a few folks have let me know that the planet CoRoT 7b, while bigger than Kepler-10b, is ...

Ever since the Kepler Space Telescope first went online, astronomers have uncovered a diverse collection of exotic extrasolar planets. While no two have been exactly alike, pretty much all of them fit ...

NASA today said its star-gazing satellite Kepler has identified its first rocky planet orbiting a sun similar to our own — 560 light years from our solar system. While not in an area of space ...

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.

The first iron-clad proof of a rocky planet beyond the solar system has been found using the Kepler Space Telescope. "It's the planetary missing link," said University of California-Berkeley ...

The newly discovered "mega-Earth" Kepler-10c dominates the foreground in this artist's conception. Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background. Astronomers have discovered a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A tiny world of molten rock, orbiting scorchingly close to its host ...

Oh, that tricksy nature. Just when we think we won’t be surprised by what we find, we find, well, a surprise. In this case, astronomers have discovered that a nearby star has a kind of planet never ...