Astronomer Ed Shaya was in his office looking at data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope…
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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.
Capturing images of our home planet from the perspective of faraway spacecraft has become a…
“We started out analyzing 275 candidates of which 149 were validated as real exoplanets. In…
In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists…
There are currently over 3500 confirmed exoplanets known thanks to the remarkable sensitivity of the…
Sunspots are regions on the Sun’s photosphere that appear darker than surrounding areas because they…
The discovery of an eighth planet circling the distant star Kepler-90 by University of Texas…
Hubble has discovered a blistering hot planet outside our solar system where it “snows” titanium…
Researchers, working closely with amateur astronomers, have spotted the dusty tails of six exocomets —…
Astronomers explain the reasons behind the behavior of Tabby’s Star. Some 1,500 light years from…
Using NASA’s Spitzer and Swift missions, as well as the Belgian AstroLAB IRIS observatory, astronomers…
Using a new algorithm to enhance observations from the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers provide the…
New research reveals that two closely orbiting stars may appear in images as a single…
A team of researchers from Yale University has identified 60 potential new “Hot Jupiters” —…
Astronomers have identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting…
New magnetohydrodynamic simulations of HAT-P-7 b reveal variable winds and a corresponding variability in the…
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has identified a regular pattern in…
Using Kepler data, Yale astronomers have discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet – Kepler-150 f. Yale astronomers…