Oceans of magma may limit the amount of Neptune-sized exoplanets, study finds. For many years,…
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.
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age. Data gathered by NASA’s now…
NASA’s Latest Exoplanet Posters Are a Halloween Treat Just in time for Halloween, NASA has…
Planet Weather Forecast: Cloudy with Rain To date, approximately 4,000 planets have been found orbiting…
A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are…
Planet: Kepler-1658b Discovered by: Chontos et al. using NASA’s Kepler telescope Date: February 2019 Key Facts: This newly-confirmed exoplanet…
NASA’s Kepler space telescope may be retired, but the discoveries continue to rack up for…
Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwDkPKPi1mY Kepler’s astounding success in proving there are more planets than stars in our galaxy,…
After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled…
The planets so far discovered across the Milky Way are a motley, teeming multitude: hot…
Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could…
Forty-four planets in solar systems beyond our own have been unveiled in one go, dwarfing…
Astronomers have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical…
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA’s…
We’ve all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking…
The K2 Mission, an extension of the immensely successful NASA Kepler mission to search for…
The slow fade of radioactive elements following a supernova allows astrophysicists to study them at…