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 ...

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the purpose of finding new objects ...

New Delhi: In 2012, it was found that Kepler-52, the Sun-like yellow dwarf ... said in a statement, "Super puff planets are fairly rare, and when they do occur, they tend to be the only one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.