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 ...

An international team of astronomers, led by San Diego State University researchers, has discovered a third transiting planet in the Kepler-47 (K-47) circumbinary system - a system where the ...

Interestingly, Earth itself received a score of 0.829. However, the newly discovered planet, Kepler-442b, boasts a slightly ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA announced Tuesday it has discovered a planet that is a lot like Earth, and could possibly support life. Produced by Matthew Stuart Follow TI Video: On Facebook ...

high Earth orbit from which it can survey the entire sky over its two-year primary mission. The planets in Kepler’s narrow field of view were as far as 3,000 light-years away, too distant for ...

Behold the “super-puff” worlds of the Kepler 51 star system. This trio of planets, which orbit a star roughly 2,400 light-years from Earth, reach massive sizes but have the density of cotton candy.

But this method was best suited to finding gas giants like Jupiter. To find rocky Earth-size planets, Kepler looks for the tiny variations in observable light that happen when a planet crosses in ...

The planets, which are both around 1,300 light-years away from Earth, can now be added to the incredible legacy of Kepler, which detected well over 2,500 planets during its multiple observation ...