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 ...

"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 ...

Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

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

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.

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, ...

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Kepler found more than 2,600 exoplanets, revealed that there are more planets than stars in the Milky Way, and gave researchers new insight into the diversity of planet types. The telescope also ...

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.