After nearly ten years and 2,681 planets, it's time to say good-bye to the Kepler space telescope. NASA has announced that the mission has ended. Unlike more open-ended missions like Curiosity or ...
Relative sizes of the newly discovered habitable-zone planets and Earth. Left to right: Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: ...
A hot, rocky planet discovered using the Kepler space telescope is the smallest ever found outside our solar system. The new planet, called Kepler-37b, has a radius less than a third the size of Earth ...
Scientists analyzing four years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission have released a new catalog of exoplanet candidates. The catalog adds more than 500 new possible planets to the 4,175 already found ...
Scientists have added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The ...
The unusual system of three “super puff” planets has at least one more planet, revealed by its gravitational tug on other planets An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density ...
A high school student has made a significant discovery using old space data. Ana Humphrey re-examined information from the ...
Although NASA agreed that the search for Earth-sized planets around sun-like stars was an important one, Boruki’s initial proposals for the mission were rejected because there was no proof that the ...
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