“For the first time you can study directly what the interior of an exoplanet is made of. That’s exciting.” The planet, a Neptune-sized world called K2 22b, was discovered in 2015. The planet ...

A timely reminder of that fact comes in the form of an all-new exoplanet discovery made by citizen scientists who dedicated their time to combing through Kepler’s logs. The world, called K2 ...

Kepler-22b, 600 light-years away ... Proxima Centauri b, Earth's closest exoplanet at over 4 light-years, orbits in its star's habitable zone, warranting future research exploration.

Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

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 ...

Kepler found over 2,600 exoplanets mostly in one a small region of the night sky. It also used data from the Gaia telescope, which is measuring the distance to billions of stars in the galaxy.