General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital…
Browsing: Kepler Space Telescope
The Kepler Space Telescope was a NASA mission launched in 2009 with the primary goal of discovering Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. Operating until 2018, Kepler revolutionized our understanding of planetary systems by continuously monitoring the brightness of over 150,000 stars, looking for the telltale dimming caused by transiting exoplanets. The mission confirmed thousands of exoplanets and revealed that planets are common throughout the galaxy, including many potentially habitable worlds. Kepler’s data reshaped theories of planet formation and sparked a new era of exoplanet science that continues through its legacy and successor missions.
A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem…
NASA’s Kepler telescope data has unveiled a new system called Kepler-385 with seven hot, large…
In its final days of operation in 2018, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope potentially discovered its…
Astrophysicists and citizen scientists have discovered three exoplanets, considered to be among the last observed…
Red Giant Stars Undergo Dramatic Weight Loss Program A new, slimmer type of red giant…
Researchers have discovered a Jupiter-like exoplanet 17,000 light-years away using Kepler data and gravitational microlensing,…
The planetary nature of a Mars-sized object orbiting extremely closely to an M-dwarf star has…
Scientists have added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. Scientists…
Astronomers have developed a novel technique that enables NASA’s TESS telescope to detect planets orbiting…
Kepler data revealed evidence of four Earth-mass rogue planets drifting without stars. Tantalizing evidence has…
Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over…
The rocky world, with its baking-hot surface, is likely not habitable. In a delightful alignment…
New machine learning algorithm designed by astronomers and computer scientists from University of Warwick confirms…
There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in…
In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center…
A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, has discovered…
Archival Data Reveals Earliest Stages of a Dramatic Event Astronomers searching archival data from NASA’s…