The central star of the Kepler-385 system closely resembles our Sun but is about 10% larger and 5% hotter. Among its seven planets, the two innermost ones, only slightly larger than Earth ...

Kepler’s orbit is far out enough that it will never return to Earth or get close enough to anything else in the solar system to be a problem. It will likely spend the rest of eternity as a deep ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

Kepler's primary mission is to search for habitable planets beyond our solar system, and its extraordinary capabilities allow it to identify over 1,000 new planets at once. This powerful tool has ...