The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...

Overlooked in the Kepler data and discovered by a citizen scientist, HD 137010 b is one of the most interesteing exoplanets ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Trained on data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced ...

When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

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NASA’s Kepler data reveals HD 137010 b, a cold, Earth-sized candidate. Though freezing cold, it offers valuable insights into planetary formation and life’s potential elsewhere.

If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.

Astronomers and philosophers have long speculated on the possibility of planets orbiting distant stars. In the 1990s the first of such objects, now called exoplanets, were discovered by astronomers.