NASA's Kepler mission ended in 2018 after more than nine years of fruitful planet-hunting. The space telescope discovered thousands of planets, many of which bear its name. But it also generated ...

The Kepler-385 system is among the highlights of a new Kepler catalog that contains almost 4,400 planet candidates, including more than 700 multi-planet systems.

Earth” located 560 light-years away in the Draco constellation, has left astronomers amazed by its immense size and unexpected composition. Weighing 17 times more than Earth, this rocky giant ...

The Kepler telescope, which was designed to search for planets like those found in the Kepler-385 system, stopped its primary observations in 2013, and conducted an extended mission until 2018.

Your inbox. The discovery of Kepler-385 has also revealed that planets tend to have more circular orbits – similar to our own solar system – when there are more than two planets orbiting a star.

If the planet’s lifetime was a more human 100 years, it would have a little more than a month left. Studying Kepler 1658b as it dies will help explain the life cycles of similar planets.

Kepler-1658b orbits closer to the star Kepler 1658 than Mercury does to our sun, completing a full circle of the star every 3.85 days. But researchers now say that orbital period is decreasing by ...

The team's three-planet model predicted that Kepler-51d would transit around 2 a.m. EDT in June 2023, and the researchers prepared to observe the event with both JWST and APO.

Kepler stared at only a few small fields (blue) of about 116 square degrees each in the sky during its lifetime: one in Cygnus and several along the ecliptic plane. TESS’ four cameras (yellow ...

Those measurements also allowed the main research team to more accurately measure the three planets orbiting Kepler-37, including the tiny Kepler-37b. “Owing to its extremely small size, similar to ...