The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...

Astronomers have pulled a frozen, Earth-sized world out of archival data from the retired Kepler Space Telescope, revealing a ...

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

It's remarkably similar to Earth.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

The planet is estimated to be about six per cent larger than Earth and follows a roughly 355-day orbit, according to the ...

NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday. Already well past its ...

A recent conundrum about a star 1,500 light years away discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope has extraterrestrial enthusiasts crying "alien" as an explanation, but scientists studying the star are ...

Discoveries can come from the most unlikely places — at least, that's what one high schooler found out, after finding nearly 1.5 million new objects in space.

On March 7, 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope took off from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta II rocket. For almost a decade, the space telescope expanded our understanding of the universe before it ...