Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However, most data ...

What makes the Kepler-51 system even more puzzling is the apparent stability of these planets’ massive atmospheres despite the intense radiation from their young, active star. These conditions ...

The newly discovered planet, Kepler-51 e, has a mass similar to the other planets in the system and an orbital period of 264 days. It is located in its star's habitable zone, which means that the ...

Previous observations led by astronomer Emily Leiner using NASA's retired Kepler space telescope had ... once part of a remarkable triple-star system. Possibly, it gained its observed turbo ...

Kepler detected planets by identifying the dimming of light from a star as a planet moved across ... s — unlike any planet in the Solar System. Is there life on Jupiter’s moon Europa?

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...