American space agency NASA announced the discovery of a planetary system that isn't flat, has transit timing variations, and shows orbital planes tilting ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

The Kepler Space Telescope was retired in 2018 after a nine-year mission that saw it discover an incredible 2,600 confirmed exoplanets, kicking off the modern era of exoplanet research.

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...

With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers discovered what may be the last three planets that the Kepler Space Telescope saw before it was retired. More than 5,000 planets are confirmed to ...

Kepler ran out of fuel in October 2018, and thus the mission ended. But Kepler data still holds cosmic secrets, and this week a team of astronomers announced the discovery of three planets seen by ...

Kepler-1658b, orbiting with a period of just 3.8 days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by the Kepler space telescope in 2009. In 2019, astrophysicist Ashley Chontos used sound waves ...

It took years to confirm the existence of Kepler-1658b. Now its days are numbered. First Planet Spotted By NASA's Kepler Telescope Is Doomed to Crash Into a Star - CNET ...