Discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, Kepler-442b is a super-Earth, meaning it’s larger than Earth ...

but some have been classified as "super earths," or worlds several times the mass of our planet, said Alan Boss, an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution who serves on the Kepler Science Council.

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its ... What's most remarkable about this new planet, however, is its orbit. While Johannes Kepler taught us that no planetary orbit is perfectly ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

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It's Earth 2.0." "Today the Earth is a little less lonely because there's a new kid on the block," said Jon Jenkins, Kepler data analysis lead at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California ...

BOSTON — Common wisdom in astronomy says that once a planet has collected about 10 Earths’ worth of rock, it becomes a gas giant like Neptune or Saturn. The exoplanet Kepler-10c didn’t get ...

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy | Space ...

Kepler-22b is a “super-Earth,” about 2.4 times Earth’s size. Scientists do not yet know if the planet has a rocky, gaseous, or liquid composition. It's possible that the world would have clouds in its ...