The planet WASP-12b, discovered in 2008, is so close to its host star that it completes a full orbit in just 26 hours. ((ESA/C. Carreau)) NASA's Kepler orbiting telescope has found more than 700 ...

The climates of six giant extrasolar planets discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, each approximately as large as Jupiter, may vary significantly throughout the day. A study published by ...

For four of the planets - Kepler-7b, Kepler-8b, Kepler-12b and Kepler-41b - the researchers saw excess brightness in the Kepler data that corresponds to when the morning side is visible.

NASA's Kepler spacecraft should have been rendered useless by a 2013 hardware failure, but instead its secondary mission -- called K2 -- has just yielded its first major discovery in the form of a ...

Kepler-16b, found in 2011, has two suns, like Tatooine, with stunning double sunsets. ... WASP-12b, found in 2008, is a exoplanet being torn apart by its parent star. Photo Credit: NASA.

NASA's recently deceased Kepler space telescope launched into orbit around the sun on March 6, 2009, ushering in a new era of planetary science.