Kepler can tell us how big a planet is, but it doesn't know what the planet is made of. And planets in the "habitable zone" around stars could be consistent with anything from a blazing hell to a ...

After determining that the Jupiter-like Kepler-7b was too cool for a body so close to its sun, astronomers used data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes to make the first cloud map of ...

Well, we can thank the now-retired Kepler Telescope for a lot of the rapid growth. The number of planets found increased substantially once Kepler began helping in the search for exoplanets.

We didn't even discover Pluto (the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet) until 1930. What's more, we still don't have a comprehensive map of our own solar system, so it's no surprise that finding planets ...

This chart maps the known cosmic neighborhood of 861 planets. Click on the options under "Select layout" to map the planets based on their location in the sky, or on their distance from the Sun.

Using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers have mapped the first clouds discovered on an extrasolar planet.

Scientists with NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft have revamped the mission's online archive of alien worlds, opening up the database for the entire world to see. Researchers are now posting ...

The planet Kepler-7b, whose star sits in the constellation Lyra, was one of the earliest discoveries using NASA’s now-hobbled Kepler space telescope. Advertisement ...

Using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope , New Scientist has made an interactive map illustrating the stars that we might expect to host roughly Earth-sized, potentially habitable planets . … ...