CNN — Ten years after the Kepler Space Telescope launched and revolutionized exoplanet discovery, Kepler-1658 b has finally been confirmed as the first exoplanet that the mission ever detected. It's ...

An international team of astronomers, led by University of Hawaii graduate student Ashley Chontos, announced the confirmation of the first exoplanet candidate identified by NASA’s Kepler Mission. The ...

Discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, Kepler-10c is a massive exoplanet that challenges existing theories about planetary formation and habitability. Dubbed a “mega-Earth,” this planet’s ...

The Kepler-10 planetary system is clearly a place of extremes. It has a small, Earth-sized world that is half scorched, the first rocky world ever discovered by the Kepler mission. That’s Kepler-10 b.

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 ...