Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...
When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...
Every time we think we're in a class by ourselves, it's only a matter of time. Used to be our solar system had the most planets around a single star. But thanks to new data from NASA's Kepler ...
Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...