It’s finally happening. NASA has announced that its Kepler telescope may have seen its last exoplanet, as the spacecraft has now all but run out of fuel. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.
NASA's exoplanet program includes many different components, from current ground-based telescopes and space-based observatories to future missions. NASA's Kepler space telescope notices the slight dip ...
Researchers used data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope to discover an eighth planet orbiting a star known as Kepler-90. The planet, dubbed Kepler-90i, is a hot, rocky planet that ...
With the help of artificial intelligence, scientists scouring data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an eighth planet around the star known as Kepler-90. The find sets a new record ...
This image from the paper is a visual representation of the planets in their abbreviated catalogue, showing planets by size and stellar temperature. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: ...
Through the looking glass: Observations from NASA's Kepler mission ended in 2018, but scientists are still pouring over what it recorded. That data can include information about new solar systems and ...
A team of astronomers has found the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system: two planets orbiting around a pair of stars. This discovery shows that planetary systems can form and survive ...
The Kepler Space Telescope, which launched earlier this year to find Earth-like planets elsewhere in our galaxy, showed it's open for business with NASA's announcement that an exoplanet we thought we ...
Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, a team ...