Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

“Today, the Earth is a little less lonely, because there’s a new kid on the block,” Jon Jenkins, the Kepler project’s data analysis lead, told reporters at a news conference last week (July 23), ...

This is an artist's rendition of the Kepler-35 planet system, in which a Saturn-size planet orbits a pair of stars. The larger star is similar to the size of the Sun, while the smaller star is 79 ...

He works at the Kepler Science Office on the whole instrument/detector system. Just 20 years ago, astronomers could only speculate about whether planets were a happy commonplace in the universe, or ...

Kepler had originally intended to become a Lutheran ... He wanted nothing more than that his science, especially his cosmology, would help to convince people of the existence of God.

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

The researchers used data collected by NASA’s Kepler telescope, which monitored 150,000 stars and measured dips in their brightness caused by transiting planets to discover thousands of exoplanets.

Kepler’s crystal ponderings laid the groundwork ... crystals and the rest of the universe? Keep reading Science News!