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

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable? Could there really ...

“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), ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

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.

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 ...

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