Feb 21, 2013 · Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found the smallest planet ever spotted beyond our Solar System, a scorched and uninhabitable ...

Feb 20, 2013 · The smallest planet, Kepler-37b, is slightly larger than our moon, measuring about one-third the size of Earth. It is smaller than Mercury, ...

Kepler-37b is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-37 in the constellation Lyra. As of February 2013, it is the smallest planet discovered around a ...

Feb 20, 2013 · The newfound alien planet Kepler-37b is the first exoplanet discovered to be smaller than Mercury. It whips around its parent star every 13 days ...

Kepler-37 b is a terrestrial exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 0.79 Earths, it takes 13.4 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.1019 ...

Jun 28, 2013 · Just one of over 100 planets already discovered by NASA's Kepler Mission, detecting this tiny world proved challenging. This discovery shows ...

Mar 11, 2024 · But of the ones scientists have found, the smallest is Kepler 37-b. Discovered in 2013 by scientists using data from the Kepler space telescope, ...

As of February 2013, it is the smallest planet discovered around a main-sequence star, with a radius slightly greater than the Moon. The measurements do not ...