Artist’s illustration of a star with an Earth-like planet. Credit: IAC A newly published study…
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 team of astronomers have measured the mass and size of the smallest exoplanet yet,…
New research from MIT and Aarhus University reveals that 74 exoplanets orbit their respective stars…
NASA’s Kepler and Swift spacecraft provides new insight into what triggers a Type Ia supernova,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw-q3uM_5_0 Seventy days worth of solar system observations from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, taken during its…
Using Kepler data, researchers from the University of Toronto reveal evidence of daily weather cycles…
Astronomers reveal that billions of the stars in the Milky Way will have one to…
Using data from the Kepler spacecraft, astronomers have discovered a compact system of five transiting…
Scientists have validated eight more candidate planets and added another 554 candidates to the roll…
As 2014 comes to a close this short video and pictures look back on a…
Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is…
A new study details the orbital architectures of Kepler systems having multiple planet candidates, revealing…
Using data from the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have defined the inner and outer edges…
Scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of the radius of a planet outside…
Using data from the Kepler spacecraft, researchers from the University of Washington confirm the first…
Astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone,” confirming…
A new three-minute ScienceCast video explores the 715 new planets that were just verified by…
Using a technique called verification by multiplicity, astronomers discovered 715 new planets from Kepler data.…