However, the newly discovered planet, Kepler-442b ... meaning it’s larger than Earth but smaller than gas giants like Neptune ...

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

Nor were these worlds all small like our inner planets. The most common planets seen by Kepler have a radius between Earth’s and Neptune’s — unlike any planet in the Solar System.

Kepler-62f (also known ... was something in between those two planets. It seems like wasted real estate,” Kane says. So Kane dropped a fictional super-Earth in that gap to see what would happen.

"The three previously known planets that orbit the star Kepler-51 are about the size of Saturn but only a few times the mass of Earth, resulting in a density like cotton candy. We think they have ...

It’s funny how the God experts are also the ones advocating for mass deportations from this “Divided States of America.” I ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites, but there ...