Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable? Could there really ...

The Kepler telescope was initially set to launch in 2006, but ended up being pushed back to 2009 as the spacecraft design and development proceeded and the Discovery program worked through issues ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star. Earth has a nearly circular orbit, but some planets outside our solar system, ...

Since the launch of the Kepler telescope and observatory in 2009, our understanding of the universe has dramatically advanced in just over five years. Kepler's primary mission is to search for ...

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...

There have been several observing projects on the Allen Telescope Array. One was a reconnaissance of star systems found to have planets (or planet candidates) by NASA’s Kepler Mission, and especially ...

Scientists, utilizing data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope, have made a groundbreaking study to unravel the perplexing phenomenon of certain exoplanets diminishing in size. More than ...