PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the ...

Exoplanet Kepler 413-b orbits a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars once every 66 days. Not only does the planet's axis wobble like crazy, its orbit about the stars wobbles too. Credit: NASA, ESA ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

This discovery was made by two of NASA’s most celebrated telescopes. This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, two ...

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...

Scientists analyzing four years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission have released a new catalog of exoplanet candidates. The catalog adds more than 500 new possible planets to the 4,175 already found ...

The Kepler Space Telescope has found over 1,000 confirmed exoplanets. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Kepler is a planet-hunting powerhouse. Even more impressive? Kepler is already finding ...