Discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, Kepler-10c is a massive exoplanet that challenges existing theories about planetary ...

Natalie Batalha, a former project scientist for NASA’s Kepler Mission, will lead the audience on a journey to the stars, providing insight into future missions to search for lives beyond the ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.

In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have introduced a groundbreaking method to map the ...

The Kepler spacecraft finds planets beyond our solar system by detecting changes in star brightness when a planet passes in front of a star. Larger image. Image by NASA/Kepler Mission/Wendy Stenzel.

Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of ...

Space-watchers saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, but now it’s official: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, by far the most successful planet-hunting telescope in history, isn’t coming back ...

The Kepler mission was the first large-scale search for transiting exoplanets: it used a space-based telescope to observe a fixed section of the sky for four years, taking images of 170,000 individual ...

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Earth's Bigger, Older Cousin The Kepler probe's focus is on finding another habitable planet.

The Kepler spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control the telescope's orientation in space, NASA said Wednesday, May 15, 2013.