The new discovery of six alien planets orbiting a sunlike star may be only a small part of the data released Wednesday from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, but it is significant as the most ...

A NASA team has found multiple planets in a distant solar system -- dubbed Kepler-11 -- transiting a sun-like star located about 2,000 light years away from Earth. This is the largest group of ...

All of the planets orbiting Kepler-11, a yellow dwarf star, are larger than Earth, with the largest ones being comparable in size to Uranus and Neptune. The innermost planet, Kepler-11b, is ten times ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope has succeeded in its mission to identify potentially-habitable exoplanets. Kepler has so far observed 156,000 stars in its field of vision and has identified no less than ...

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-sized planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Five of the ...

Scientists using NASA’s Kepler, a space telescope, recently discovered six planets made of a mix of rock and gases orbiting a single sun-like star, known as Kepler-11, which is located approximately 2 ...

(Nanowerk News) Astronomers using data from three of NASA's space telescopes -- Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler -- have discovered clear skies and steamy water vapor on a gaseous planet outside our solar ...

Scientists using NASA's Kepler, a space telescope, recently discovered six planets made of a mix of rock and gases orbiting a single sun-like star, known as Kepler-11, which is located approximately 2 ...