At that time only 80 exoplanets had been discovered since ... On December 5, 2011, Kepler-22b’s discovery electrified the world, as it was the first “super-Earth” discovered orbiting in ...

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

It found plenty, but some discoveries were easier to verify than others, and the very first exoplanet ever detected by Kepler has only just been confirmed. When scientists first notice evidence of ...

This more than doubles the number of validated exoplanets discovered by Kepler, said Timothy Morton, co-author of the study, during a press conference Tuesday. SEE ALSO: Death flash of an ...

Most of those observations were made by the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which for four consecutive years kept an eye on a small patch of sky containing a few hundred thousand stars.

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the ... still has plenty of power to comb the heavens for undetected exoplanets. In order to spot these new worlds, scientists began sifting ...

Although Kepler-22b is 600 light-years away and about twice ... Gliese 581g was the first potentially habitable exoplanet discovered by astronomers in September 2010. The distant orb circles ...

Using a 3D global climate computer model normally employed to study Earth's environment, the astronomers found that the white dwarf exoplanet was much warmer than the Kepler-62 exoplanet despite ...