Kepler-186 and the Solar System: The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.

Earth-like planets – are in the universe. The Kepler telescope launched on the early morning of March 7, 2009 aboard a Delta II medium-lift launch vehicle, the same vehicle that launched many ...

and plenty of software solutions have been developed in the six years since the end of Kepler's primary mission to help facilitate crunching large sets of data to look for planets around other stars.

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

The central star of the Kepler-385 system closely resembles our Sun but is about 10% larger and 5% hotter. Among its seven planets, the two innermost ones, only slightly larger than Earth ...