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

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 ...

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 ...

While Kepler’s progress is encouraging, some of the hype around recent discoveries may have been premature. The two Earth-size planets, Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, orbit too close to their sun ...

Kepler scientists are strict about calling candidate planets confirmed. Of 400 candidate planets announced last year, only nine of Kepler's discoveries had been confirmed before Wednesday.

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has found thousands of prospective planets around nearby stars. But the trick is often in confirming whether they’re real or fakes. Now, a new study of gas giant ...

Planets, planets everywhere. The Kepler space telescope launched in 2009. By the end of 2017, it had discovered more than 2,500 planets (yellow), about 70 percent of all exoplanets known.

Despite being currently offline, the Kepler space telescope is still turning up surprises. One of them is an Earth-like planet that’s so large that astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...

The planets orbiting far-off stars are close to Earth-sized and are a distance from their suns that makes their surfaces neither too hot nor too cold. Since launching in 2009, the Kepler telescope ...

NASA scientists announced yesterday that they're giving up on trying to fix the Kepler space telescope. Now the team will focus on finding a new use for the planet-hunting telescope.

Kepler has discovered 4,034 possible planets orbiting distant suns, 2,335 of which have been confirmed as actual planets. This chart shows previous discoveries in blue with newly announced ...