SEATTLE — When astronomers announced Jan. 10 the discovery of Kepler-10b, they described the alien world as “unquestionably rocky.” Scientists have announced other rocky exoplanets in the past, but ...

SEATTLE – NASA has discovered the smallest planet ever seen beyond our solar system – a rocky world just 1.4 times larger than Earth – using its planet-hunting Kepler observatory. The planet, called ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. So far in the search for life elsewhere in the universe, astronomers have found scores of large planets.

NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

A big, hot rock made its debut Tuesday. It's a planet orbiting a star 560 light-years away, and it is claimed to be the smallest planet discovered outside our solar system. Astronomers have found ...

[UPDATE (January 15, 2011): Mea culpa. It’s getting hard to keep up with all the exoplanets being found now, and a few folks have let me know that the planet CoRoT 7b, while bigger than Kepler-10b, is ...

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The first iron-clad proof of a rocky planet beyond the solar system has been found using the Kepler Space Telescope. "It's the planetary missing link," said University of California-Berkeley ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A tiny world of molten rock, orbiting scorchingly close to its host ...

For the past two years, NASA’s orbiting Kepler telescope has been peering, unblinking, at some 150,000 stars lying just under the wing of the swan in the constellation Cygnus, about 560 light-years ...

This November is going to be an exciting time for exoplanet science and the major reason for that is the 2018 ExoCup. Starting on November 6th a list of 16 exoplanets will be facing off against each ...