"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

The iconic Kepler Space Telescope has retired, but the quest for new worlds continues!✨ In this video, we dive into Kepler’s ...

Discover the fascinating story of the 'blue lurker,' a mysterious star in the M67 star cluster studied by NASA's Hubble ...

The research team set out to study Kepler-51d, the third planet in the system, with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but almost missed their chance when the planet unexpectedly passed in ...

the outermost of five such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. It is located about 1,200 light-years (370 parsecs, or nearly 1.135Ñ1016 km) from Earth in the constellation of Lyra.

Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated ...

The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ...

NASA has identified a rare and unusual "blue lurker" star that was produced during the collapse of a triple-star system in ...

Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets and to identify 2,300 candidate planets now awaiting confirmation via further ...

Caldwell is a Co-Investigator on the Kepler Mission, the Instrument Scientist for the Kepler Mission. He works at the Kepler Science Office on the whole instrument/detector system. Just 20 years ago, ...

Space exploration has always been about pushing boundaries, venturing into the unknown, and discovering the secrets of the ...