
Kepler’s planet candidates as of Feb. 1, 2011. Image credit: NASA/Wendy Stenzel

Kepler’s candidates of multi-planet systems. Image credit: NASA/Tim Pyle

Kepler-11 Planet Sizes

The daytime temperature’s expected to be more than 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than lava flows here on Earth, hot enough…

Kepler-10b orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft is monitoring, a star that is very similar to…

The world’s largest vacuum chamber resides at the NASA Glenn Research Center’s Space Power Facility, located at Plum Brook Station…

Planet Kepler-10b is orbiting it star about 20 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our own Sun.…

Kepler-10b orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the spacecraft is monitoring between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra. We…

This artist’s conception shows the Kepler-11 planetary system and our solar system from a tilted perspective to demonstrate that the…

Kepler-11 is a sun-like star around which six planets orbit. At times, two or more planets pass in front of…