a class of hypothetical planets covered in a deep ocean with an atmosphere rich in water vapor (such as the controversial K2-18b). Kepler-10 c might be even more particular. It is not just a water ...

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 ...

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.

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Since 2009, Kepler has been looking for planets outside our solar system where life might flourish. Batalha was the one who refined the point in the sky—tucked under the wing of Cygnus ...

The team believes there is a third planet in the system, Kepler-10 d, orbiting further out, going around the star every 151 days. The minimum mass of this world is around 12 times Earth ...