Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However, most data ...

The team's three-planet model predicted that Kepler-51d would transit around 2 a.m. EDT in June 2023, and the researchers prepared to observe the event with both JWST and APO. "Thank goodness we ...

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

The study of planets beyond the solar system has reached an unprecedented milestone, with over 5,700 confirmed exoplanets.

Hidden in the Heavens: How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own Jason Steffen Princeton Univ. Press (2024) In the mid-1980s, NASA engineer William Borucki faced ...

Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. During this two-month campaign, Kepler ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. It is located about 1,200 light-years (370 parsecs ...

It’s funny how the God experts are also the ones advocating for mass deportations from this “Divided States of America.” I ...

He works at the Kepler Science Office on the whole instrument/detector system. Just 20 years ago, astronomers could only speculate about whether planets were a happy commonplace in the universe, or ...