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.

Astronomers have determined that the planet Kepler-10c, discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope back in 2011 and thought to be a gas giant, is actually solid, making it an unprecedented ...

Rooting around extrasolar planetary systems like paleontologists on a dinosaur dig astronomers have found a remarkable new planet 17 times more massive than Earth. Improbably, it's made of rock.

The Kepler Telescope team has found a new rocky planet, one they describe as a “scorched, molten Earth.” The planet is about 2 times the size of Earth, and is very close to the Sun-like star Kepler-10 ...

The newly discovered 'mega-Earth' Kepler-10c dominates the foreground in this artist's conception. Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background. Both orbit a sunlike star. Kepler-10c ...

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There’s a planet circling a star 560 light-years away in the constellation Draco that shouldn’t be there according to conventional wisdom in planetary formation. Dubbed Kepler-10c because it was ...