NASA has released additional Kepler data about TRAPPIST-1 – an ultra-cool dwarf star that hosts…
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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.
A newly published study provides a list of habitable zone exoplanet candidates from the Kepler…
Using the refurbished Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers studied solar-like oscillations in the Hyades open star…
In a newly published study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute and the University of…
Data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and computer modeling show an approximation of what various…
Astronomers have used data from the Kepler Space Telescope to give the clearest understanding yet…
Using the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have identified the largest planet to date around a…
New research reveals that a distant planet known as Kepler-62f could be habitable. The planet,…
A new measurement of the dust around KIC 8462852 reveals that it seems to be…
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of…
Using data from the Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers reveal that the small star…
Using NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, new research suggests that unusual light signals from…
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first confirmed planet around a sun-like star,…
Using the repurposed Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered evidence of a tiny, rocky object…
Using Kepler data astronomers have discovered Kepler-453b – a circumbinary planet located within the “habitable…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has examined Kepler observations for exoplanet…
With the help of the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers and scientists continue to search for…
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered a planet and star that closely resemble the Earth…