Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

The Webb Telescope has helped discover a fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system ... about 2,600 light-years from Earth. The research findings were published in "The Astronomical Journal." ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Since its launch in March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has provided us with an incredible amount of data about exoplanets within our galaxy, proving these worlds are more varied and numerous ...

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...

In short order he began making astronomical findings that would ... and stars upside down? Kepler's advance created a new challenge, however. Because his telescope offered a much greater field ...

Previous observations led by astronomer Emily Leiner using NASA's retired Kepler space telescope had revealed ... triple star system in such detail. The findings would help stellar evolution ...

This meant that new data reduction techniques had to be developed to look for signals within the Kepler dataset. Dr McDonald said: “These signals are extremely difficult to find. Our observations ...

Scientists, utilizing data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope, have made a groundbreaking study to unravel the perplexing phenomenon of certain exoplanets diminishing in size. More than ...

In a new study published in Science, researchers examined brightness data collected by NASA’s Kepler telescope between ... With these findings, scientists now have a clearer understanding ...