— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

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 ...

Astronomers have just unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could significantly impact the search for life beyond our solar system. The discovery involves the detection of Kepler-725c, a ...

The Kepler Space Telescope, launched March 6, 2009, was designed to search the Milky Way for exoplanets. Using the transit ...

The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard about it in a while?

Schmitt, Joseph R., Agol, Eric, Deck, Katherine M., Rogers, Leslie A., Gazak, J. Zachary, Fischer, Debra A., Wang, Ji, Holman, Matthew J., Jek, Kian J., Margossian ...