A new planetary member of the Kepler-10 solar system was announced today. Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, members of the Kepler science team confirmed a new planet, dubbed Kepler-10c.

Researchers have discovered what is being called the “Godzilla of Earths” some 560 light years from Earth, in the constellation Draco. The planet, named Kepler-10c after the NASA Kepler space ...

Rooting around extrasolar planetary systems like paleontologists on a dinosaur dig astronomers have found a remarkable new planet 17 times more massive than Earth. Improbably, it's made of rock.

(Nanowerk News) Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a new type of planet - a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth. Theorists believed such a world couldn't form because ...

NASA astronomers recently discovered a new class of rocky planet measuring 2.3 times the size of Earth and 17 times its diameter. Dubbed “mega-Earth,” this type of planet challenges all previous ...

Ever since the Kepler Space Telescope first went online, astronomers have uncovered a diverse collection of exotic extrasolar planets. While no two have been exactly alike, pretty much all of them fit ...