The newly discovered planet, named Kepler-51e, was revealed through subtle yet telling anomalies in the transit of one of the system’s previously known planets.This detection adds a new layer of ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

"If Kepler-452b is indeed a rocky planet, its location vis-a-vis its star ... or 0.00001585 of a light year. Nasa's New Horizon probe is currently the fastest craft we have at around 36,373 ...

and plenty of software solutions have been developed in the six years since the end of Kepler's primary mission to help facilitate crunching large sets of data to look for planets around other stars.

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced ...

The chance that a background star is affected this way by a planet is tens to hundreds of millions to one against. But there are hundreds of millions of stars towards the centre of our Galaxy. So ...

Dr Iain McDonald Follow me on X (opens in new window) Follow me on Facebook (opens in new window) Add me on LinkedIn (opens in new window) Kepler was not designed to find planets using microlensing, ...

Two significant additional discoveries-the identification of twin water worlds, Kepler-138c and d, and the existence of water-rich planets-show us that there are many ways for small exoplanets to be ...

Behold the “super-puff” worlds of the Kepler 51 star system. This trio of planets, which orbit a star roughly 2,400 light-years from Earth, reach massive sizes but have the density of cotton candy.