An Intragalactic Treasure Hunt: Red Giant Stars’ Mass “Stolen” by Stellar Neighbors
Red Giant Stars Undergo Dramatic Weight Loss Program A new, slimmer type of red giant star has been identified by astronomers, who liken their discovery…
Kepler Space Telescope News
The Kepler Space Telescope was a NASA space observatory that was launched in 2009 with the primary goal of discovering Earth-size planets orbiting other stars. Also known as the Kepler Mission, the space telescope monitored a specific region of the Milky Way galaxy, measuring the brightness of over 150,000 stars in search of exoplanets. Over the course of its mission, the Kepler Space Telescope discovered thousands of exoplanets, revolutionizing our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
This page is where you can find the latest news, updates, and discoveries related to the Kepler Mission. From new exoplanet discoveries to insights into the technology and methods used by the Kepler team, this page is your go-to source for in-depth coverage of this important mission. Keep checking back for new articles and updates on the Kepler Space Telescope and its legacy.
Jupiter’s Twin: NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Delivers New Planetary Discovery From the Grave
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a…
A Mars-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Extremely Close to Host Star – Its Year Is Less Than 10 Hours
The planetary nature of a Mars-sized object orbiting extremely closely to an M-dwarf star has been validated using the Penn State Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF)….
A Whopping 301 Newly Confirmed Exoplanets – Discovered With New Deep Neural Network ExoMiner
Scientists have added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the…
New Method To Detect Tatooine-Like Planets Proves Successful
A new technique developed in part by University of Hawaiʻi astronomer Nader Haghighipour has allowed scientists to quickly detect a transiting exoplanet with two suns….
Mysterious Population of Rogue Planets Spotted Near the Center of Our Galaxy
Tantalizing evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of “rogue” (or “free-floating”) planets, planets that may be alone in deep space, unbound to any…
Breakthrough: Shrinking Planets Could Explain Mystery of Universe’s Missing Worlds
Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: The scarcity…
Alignment of Astronomy and Mathematics: Earth-Sized “Pi Planet” With a 3.14-day Orbit Discovered
The rocky world, with its baking-hot surface, is likely not habitable. In a delightful alignment of astronomy and mathematics, scientists at MIT and elsewhere have…
50 New Planets Confirmed in Machine Learning First – AI Distinguishes Between Real and “Fake” Planets
New machine learning algorithm designed by astronomers and computer scientists from University of Warwick confirms new exoplanets in telescope data Sky surveys find thousands of…
Kepler Space Telescope Reveals as Many as Six Billion Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy
There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, according to new estimates by University…
How Earth Climate Models Help NASA Scientists Picture Life on Unimaginable Worlds
In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks…
Hidden Earth-Like Habitable Planet Discovered in Old NASA Kepler Data
A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star’s habitable zone, the…
Vampire Star System Undergoing Super-Outburst Witnessed by Kepler Spacecraft
Archival Data Reveals Earliest Stages of a Dramatic Event Astronomers searching archival data from NASA’s Kepler exoplanet hunting mission identified a previously unknown dwarf nova…
Some Monster Planets Eat Their Own Skies – Solving the Puzzle of Sub-Neptune Exoplanets
Oceans of magma may limit the amount of Neptune-sized exoplanets, study finds. For many years, for all we knew, our solar system was alone in…
Star-Quakes Recorded by NASA Space Telescope Provide Solution to an Astronomical Mystery
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age. Data gathered by NASA’s now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery….
NASA’s Galaxy of Horrors [Video]
NASA’s Latest Exoplanet Posters Are a Halloween Treat Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released two new posters celebrating some truly terrifying exoplanets, or…
For 1st Time NASA Finds Water Vapor on a Super-Earth [Video]
Its size and surface gravity are much larger than Earth’s, and its radiation environment may be hostile, but a distant planet called K2-18b has captured…
Most Accurate Estimate of Earth-Like Planets Around Sun-Like Stars
A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their…
