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

Nasa has discovered 1,284 exoplanets, 550 of which could be rocky planets similar to Earth. Using data from the Kepler Space Telescope, a team of astronomers analysed 7,056 detected objects, 4,302 of ...

Space company Kepler Communications has raised an oversubscribed US$60M Series B to provide it with a capital injection for the continued scaling of its on-orbit satellite communications network. This ...

"Exomoons are so far away that we cannot see them directly, even with the most powerful modern telescopes," said Dr. René Heller, who is an astrophysicist at Max Planck and lead author of the study.

The curious minds at What If imagine living on Kepler 22-b and seeing alien skies, exploring how extraterrestrial landscapes ...

Comparison of the relative sizes of several Kepler circumbinary planets, from the smallest, Kepler-47 b, to the largest, Kepler-1647 b. Kepler-1647 b is substantially larger than any of the previously ...