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

Kepler-10c was discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft -- hence its name. The spacecraft has been in hot pursuit of other planets that could support extraterrestrial life for about five years.

Kepler-10c is estimated to be around 2.3 times larger than earth with a diameter of approximately 18,000 miles. "Finding Kepler-10c tells us that rocky planets could form much earlier than we thought.

Kepler-10c is so big, more than twice the size of the Earth, that researchers initially described it as a smaller Neptune, which is the densest gaseous planet in our solar system.

That example is Kepler 10c, an extrasolar planet astronomers didn’t think could exist: a heavyweight “Earth” two-and-a-half times larger and 17 times more massive than our own welterweight home world.

Kepler-10c was first identified by Kepler, and later validated using a combination of a computer simulation technique called “Blender,” and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.

Scientists have just discovered the "Godzilla of Earths" -- a new type of huge and rocky alien world about 560 light-years from Earth. Dubbed a "mega-Earth," the exoplanet Kepler-10c weighs 17 ...

The planet, named Kepler-10c after the NASA Kepler space telescope that found it, is a rocky world with 17 times the mass of Earth. While other “Super-Earths” have been discovered by ...

Kepler 10-c, it turns out, has a diameter about 2.35 times the Earth’s. That’s big enough that it should have a thick atmosphere, making it more like a mini-Neptune than Earth. If that were ...

Scientists have discovered an exoplanet they’re dubbing a “mega-Earth.” Kepler-10c is a rocky world weighing as much as 17 Earths, according to researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...

Discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope and announced Monday at an astronomy meeting in Boston, this planet, officially named Kepler-10c, scrambles the equations that dictate how massive a ...

New data on a planet discovered by the Kepler space telescope back in 2011 has helped scientists to determine that Kepler-10c is actually a new type of planet -- a huge, rocky "mega-Earth" that ...