As Natalie Batalha searches for life outside our solar system, the celebrated astrophysicist and her colleagues often gather around the whiteboard in her UC Santa Cruz office. It’s reminiscent of the ...

NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

NASA recently announced that it had detected more than 5,000 exoplanets, so we asked astronomers, actors and an astronaut to share their favorite worlds orbiting distant stars. By Becky Ferreira In ...

The past year has been a rough one for a lot of us. With that in mind, I wanted to end the year by writing about something fun. Something that would bring a smile to your face and put a little hope in ...

The newly discovered "mega-Earth" Kepler-10c dominates the foreground in this artist's conception. Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background. Both orbit a sunlike star. Kepler-10c ...

Scientists have just discovered the "Godzilla of Earths" -- a new type of huge and rocky alien world about 560 light-years from Earth. Dubbed a "mega-Earth," the exoplanet Kepler-10c weighs 17 times ...

Meet the “Mega Earth.” Described today by astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, this ancient rocky world weighs 17 times as much as Earth — which is a big surprise ...

SEATTLE — When astronomers announced Jan. 10 the discovery of Kepler-10b, they described the alien world as “unquestionably rocky.” Scientists have announced other rocky exoplanets in the past, but ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. So far in the search for life elsewhere in the universe, astronomers have found scores of large planets.

SEATTLE – NASA has discovered the smallest planet ever seen beyond our solar system – a rocky world just 1.4 times larger than Earth – using its planet-hunting Kepler observatory. Subscribe to read ...

NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.