The Kepler-10 planetary system is clearly a place of extremes. It has a small, Earth-sized world that is half scorched, the first rocky world ever discovered by the Kepler mission. That’s Kepler-10 b.

Not bad for a dead bird. Before Kepler goes dark for good, let’s take a look at how NASA managed to resurrect this planet hunting space telescope and greatly expand our knowledge of the planets ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

and plenty of software solutions have been developed in the six years since the end of Kepler's primary mission to help facilitate crunching large sets of data to look for planets around other stars.

And rightly so. It’s called a planet finder, but that was never its purpose, exactly. Staring for years at the same field of 150,000 stars to record transits, Kepler’s job was to gather ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the strongest evidence yet of life off Earth.

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found water vapor swirling in the air of a distant, boiling-hot alien planet, a new ...