K2-33b, depicted in this illustration, is among the youngest exoplanets discovered to date by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. This artist's rendering depicts a giant exoplanet causing small bodies to ...

Most of those observations were made by the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which for four consecutive years kept an eye on a small patch of sky containing a few hundred thousand stars.

If you’ve read anything about newly discovered exoplanets over the past decade there’s a really good chance the discovery was made by the Kepler space telescope. Originally launched back in ...

Kepler found over 2,600 exoplanets mostly in one a small region of the night sky. It also used data from the Gaia telescope, which is measuring the distance to billions of stars in the galaxy.

In so doing, it was known that Kepler would find numerous other planets much larger than Earth and would greatly increase our knowledge of extrasolar system composition and exoplanet frequency.

Thanks to NASA's Kepler telescope, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets in our galaxy, many that are Earth-sized and circle stars like our sun. Although measuring the size of an ...

This is an artist's illustration showing a cross-section of the Earth (left) and the exoplanet ... [+] Kepler-138 d (right). But there’s a lot of uncertainty involved at this point with the ...

Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets and to identify 2,300 candidate planets now awaiting confirmation via further ...

It was spotted due to the reflection of starlight caused by the planet – alongside another world named Kepler-70c. The alien world would be toastier than the hottest confirmed exoplanet KELT-9b ...

In the journal Nature Astronomy, astronomers announced that the two exoplanets — Kepler-138 c and Kepler-138 d — could be made up of mostly water. But how did they figure that out, when the ...

Only two of the more than 5,300 known exoplanets have so far provided evidence of moons in orbit around them. In observations of the planets Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b from the Kepler and ...