NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too
This image shows a composition of all the current potential habitable exoplanets candidates in the catalog. The exoplanets are ranked by similarity to Earth from
This artist’s conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that
New signs point to a billion planets in our own galaxy where extra-terrestrials might be hiding. The analysis of the first 136 days of results
The habitable zone, or the “goldilocks zone” as it’s often known (not to close to the star, not too far away), is the orbital range
This artist’s concept illustrates Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars — what’s called a circumbinary planet. The planet, which can be
A journey to the center of a red giant star is very firmly in the realm of science fiction. But the science of asteroseismology can
With planet hunting Kepler spacecraft, astronomers have discovered 1,235 candidate planets orbiting other suns since the Kepler mission’s search for Earth-like worlds began in 2009.
Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical – at least 50 billion planets in the
The ESA’s newest Automated Transfer Vehicle–ATV-2, otherwise known as Johannes Kepler–is loaded up and primed for its February 15th launch to the International Space Station,
