NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...

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"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

The new index, detailed in a paper published in ... However, the newly discovered planet, Kepler-442b, boasts a slightly ...

including citizen scientists using the website Planet Hunters, continued to sift through the existing Kepler light curves to find new exoplanets. A new mission called “K2” was drawn up and ...

No one knows what the new planets will look like, but thanks to Kepler, we do know there will be some weird ones. “There are these lava planets, water worlds, planets that rain rubies ...

The cosmic "treasure trove" was revealed using data from NASA's Kepler Space ... rather than planets around stars like our sun,” Ian Crossfield, the lead author of the new study detailing ...

Kepler has given rise—or new hope—to dozens of planet-hunting projects around the world, from small RV searches to large space observatories planned for launch in the 2020s and 2030s.

A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a near-identical twin of Jupiter orbiting a star at ...

As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new ... Kepler for the older population. In short, the scientists found a higher occurrence of young planets.

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 ...