Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

Caldwell is a Co-Investigator on the Kepler Mission, the Instrument Scientist for the Kepler Mission. He works at the Kepler Science Office on the whole instrument/detector system. Just 20 years ago, ...

There's poetry in Kepler's ability to make us feel both small and also so connected to the rest of our universe. SEE ALSO: Scientists think they've found a moon orbiting a world outside the solar ...

The discovery of Kepler-442b highlights the ongoing search for Earth 2.0. Scientists are constantly refining their methods ...

The author is an HCMC distinguished professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. His life was marked by unrelenting misfortune. At the age of four, he contracted smallpox, losing most of ...

and it is getting closer Before Kepler we knew of only a handful of so-called exoplanets Now the telescope is 'dead in the water' as its positioning system has failed But a Nasa scientist has ...

NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...

The water vapour would be lost from the planet forever," explained Kepler scientist Dr Doug Caldwell. "Kepler-452b could be experiencing now what the Earth will undergo more than a billion years ...

Looking toward the future, Dr. Smith is involved with adapting the Kepler science processing algorithms for use with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satallite (TESS), a new NASA planet finding mission ...

When you look into the night sky, scientists now think that most stars you see are home to at least one planet. That's according to the latest analysis, presented on Monday at the Kepler Science ...