"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

The researchers used data collected by NASA's Kepler telescope ... very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form. That's really the major discovery ...

It's one of the most basic, and maddening, questions ever posed by scientists, but we're now one step closer to answering it. A new set of data released by NASA's Kepler mission catalogs 219 ...

The researchers used data collected by NASA's Kepler telescope ... us there really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form. That's ...

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

Proctor/J. Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet, circle one of our closest ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

During its operating lifetime between 2009 and 2018, Kepler observed around ... different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form," Gilbert said.