The newly discovered planet, named Kepler-51e, was revealed through subtle yet telling anomalies in the transit of one of the system’s previously known planets.This detection adds a new layer of ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

Because the new planet, Kepler-51e, has not yet been observed transiting—perhaps because it may not pass in the line of sight between its star and Earth—the researchers noted how important it ...

"If Kepler-452b is indeed a rocky planet, its location vis-a-vis its star ... or 0.00001585 of a light year. Nasa's New Horizon probe is currently the fastest craft we have at around 36,373 ...

A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a near-identical twin of Jupiter orbiting a star at ...

Two significant additional discoveries-the identification of twin water worlds, Kepler-138c and d, and the existence of water-rich planets-show us that there are many ways for small exoplanets to be ...

Add me on LinkedIn (opens in new window) Kepler was not designed to find planets using microlensing, nor to study the extremely dense star fields of the inner Galaxy. This meant that new data ...

Behold the “super-puff” worlds of the Kepler 51 star system. This trio of planets, which orbit a star roughly 2,400 light-years from Earth, reach massive sizes but have the density of cotton candy.