11 May 2016
Kepler scientists announce a major increase in confirmed exoplanet numbers
...light as a planet passes in front of its parent star. Kepler is sensitive enough to measure this slight dimming of starlight and...the transiting planet. So far, using this method, Kepler scientists have identified about 4700 exoplanet ‘candidates’ and ...
19 November 2018
Kepler officially retires after receiving final "goodnight" commands
... said a final goodbye to its formidable first planet-hunting satellite Kepler, as the space agency sent its final set of commands ... the primary mission objectives had been met, two of Kepler's four gyroscope-like reaction wheels, which are used to...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
...the size of Earth. During nearly a decade of service, Kepler observed a staggering 530,506 stars and detected over 2,600 ... our sun as it was designed to, it was proposed that Kepler search for habitable worlds around smaller, dimmer red dwarfs in a...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... of the year. We expect to start vetting a new catalogue of Kepler Objects of Interest early next year. Our current plan is to wrap...habitable zone of the Sun-like stars we’re observing. Kepler studied the same starfield in the constellation of Cygnus,...
14 December 2017
AI detects eighth planet orbiting distant sun
...but everything is scrunched in much closer,” explained Vanderburg. Kepler’s four-year dataset consists of 35,000 possible planetary ...the data waiting for people to find them.” The Kepler-90 planets have a similar configuration to our solar system...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
...followed by the confirmation of two exoplanets, called Kepler-160b and Kepler-160c, four years later. Both of these ... hiding in the system. After searching through archival Kepler data of Kepler-160, the team found not just one additional planet...
