NASA announced the latest findings Monday in its hunt for friendly exoplanets, and the haul includes 219 new candidates. Of those, 10 are potentially rocky and located in the habitable zones of their ...

Determining which small exoplanets have stony-iron compositions is necessary for quantifying the occurrence of such planets and for understanding the physics of planet formation. Kepler-10 hosts the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. (CNN) — The NASA Kepler mission has discovered 219 more exoplanets, including 10 Earth-size planets, program scientist Mario Perez said Monday at NASA’s Ames Research Center in ...

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 NASA Kepler mission has discovered 219 more exoplanets, including 10 Earth-size planets, program scientist Mario Perez said Monday at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. Ten of the planets ...

The Kepler Telescope team has found a new rocky planet, one they describe as a “scorched, molten Earth.” The planet is about 2 times the size of Earth, and is very close to the Sun-like star Kepler-10 ...

A new planetary member of the Kepler-10 solar system was announced today. Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, members of the Kepler science team confirmed a new planet, dubbed Kepler-10c.

This story was updated at 10:16 p.m. ET. SEATTLE — Astronomers announced the discovery today (Jan. 10) of the first "unquestionably rocky" alien world — a planet called Kepler-10b. Scientists have ...

PASADENA — NASA’s Kepler mission Monday 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 ...