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.

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. The planet, called ...

NASA today said its star-gazing satellite Kepler has identified its first rocky planet orbiting a sun similar to our own — 560 light years from our solar system. While not in an area of space ...

The planet, Kepler-10b, is 1.4 times the size of Earth and the smallest planet discovered outside our solar system. Though the planet is far too... Kepler Space Telescope Spots Its First Rocky Planet ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has detected a rocky planet that's one of the closest analogs to Earth — except for the fact that it's way too close to its sun. Rocky worlds have been detected around alien ...

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.

[UPDATE (January 15, 2011): Mea culpa. It’s getting hard to keep up with all the exoplanets being found now, and a few folks have let me know that the planet CoRoT 7b, while bigger than Kepler-10b, is ...

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 taken ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope is busted and it may never work normally again. But during its four years of exemplary service, the planet-hunting telescope provided astronomers with an unprecedented ...