Astronomers have pulled a frozen, Earth-sized world out of archival data from the retired Kepler Space Telescope, revealing a ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...

NASA scientists unearthed a new exoplanet, dubbed the 'cold Earth,' from retired Kepler telescope data. This Earth-sized world, HD 137010 b, orbits a distant star and, despite frigid temperatures, may ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

A recent conundrum about a star 1,500 light years away discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope has extraterrestrial enthusiasts crying "alien" as an explanation, but scientists studying the star are ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.

CNN — Ten years after the Kepler Space Telescope launched and revolutionized exoplanet discovery, Kepler-1658 b has finally been confirmed as the first exoplanet that the mission ever detected. It's ...