Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

The Webb Telescope has helped discover a fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system, which is known for its "fluffy" low-density planets. This discovery changes our current understanding of this system.

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...

This meant that new data reduction techniques had to be developed to look for signals within the Kepler dataset. Dr McDonald said: “These signals are extremely difficult to find. Our observations ...

The Kepler telescope launched into orbit in March 2009, initiating NASA’s first mission to discover Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars. Kepler simultaneously collected data for ∼160,000 target ...

Since its launch in March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has provided us with an incredible amount of data about exoplanets within our galaxy, proving these worlds are more varied and numerous ...

Previous observations led by astronomer Emily Leiner using NASA's retired Kepler space telescope had revealed that all of M67's 500 stellar residents are about four billion years old, save for a ...

Kepler aims to explore and observe the structure and diversity of planetary systems, but after four years and 150,000 monitored stars it lost the second of four reaction wheels. This mission failure ...

The addition of Kepler-51e further underscores the complexity of this remarkable system. James Webb Space Telescope adds a fourth planet to Kepler-51 system The discovery of Kepler-51e was ...

Scientists, utilizing data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope, have made a groundbreaking study to unravel the perplexing phenomenon of certain exoplanets diminishing in size. More than ...