Newly discovered small exoplanets may be fluffy

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 10:33

During its four-year mission, NASA`s Kepler space telescope discovered thousands of "planetary candidates" in our Milky Way galaxy, many of which were found to be covered in gas.

US scientists to boycott NASA meeting

Last Updated: Sunday, October 6, 2013, 13:38

Several prominent scientists in exoplanet research have decided to boycott a NASA conference after learning Chinese researchers are barred from attending by the space agency, which cited national security as its reason.

Kepler telescope data may be hiding alien spacecraft clues

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 18:37

A NASA researcher is sifting through uninvestigated data from the planet-hunting Kepler telescope - in the hope of finding alien spacecraft passing in front of distant stars.