Published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the new research by the University of Florida looks at data collected by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft between 2009 and ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

Caption This image from NASA's Kepler spacecraft shows members of the Pleiades star cluster taken during Campaign 4 of the K2 Mission. The cluster stretches across two of the 42 charge-coupled ...

The mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft is in peril. The space agency says a malfunction has disabled a reaction wheel that keeps Kepler's telescope pointed precisely at far-away planets ...

Discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, Kepler-442b is a super-Earth, meaning it’s larger than Earth ...

the outermost of five such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. It is located about 1,200 light-years (370 parsecs, or nearly 1.135Ñ1016 km) from Earth in the constellation of Lyra.

The Penn State team trained JWST's spectrograph at K2-22, a star discovered by the Kepler spacecraft—as part of its extended K2 mission—to host one of these evaporating planets, K2-22b.

Say hello to "Earth 2.0." Thanks to NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, a world that could "conceivably harbor life" was found among the stars, sporting a "balmy temperature" of 72 degrees ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Launched in March 2009, the Kepler Spacecraft has found well over 4000 potential planets and the number of confirmed planets is now approaching 1000. Eking out planet signals in the Kepler Data has ...

That spacecraft, the Kepler Space Telescope, remains humanity’s most prolific planet hunter so far, having spied thousands of distant planets and many more candidate ones. In Hidden in the ...