04 October 2018
Astronomers find compelling evidence for first confirmed exomoon
... of exoplanets come thick and fast nowadays as a multitude of telescopes both on the ground or in orbit, are programmed to constantly... data from the Hubble Space Telescope and older data from the Kepler Space Telescope and the results look a ...
23 July 2015
Exoplanet Kepler 452b and what the search for a real life “Another Earth” means for human self-perception
The most Earth-like exoplanet yet may have a lot to teach us…about ourselves. Kepler 452b, discovered by the Kepler Telescope, is located in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. In terms of the vastness of space, it is relatively “close” – a mere 1,400 ...
14 June 2016
Astronomers discover a giant planet orbiting two suns
... gathered with the Kepler telescope, to confirm the transit involved two suns. "During the lifetime of the Kepler Mission, we've only... paper. "We weren't expecting to find anything like [Kepler-1647b], with such a long orbital period because those ...
16 April 2021
Five double star systems potentially suitable for life identified by researchers
... of which were discovered by the Kepler telescope, five were found to fit the bill. “We show for ... for hosting a world that is potentially habitable is the binary system Kepler-38, approximately 3970 light years from Earth, and known to contain a ...
03 August 2018
Plate tectonics not needed for life, but UV light is
... powerful solar flares to jolt the chemistry forward step by step. Presently, several planets detected by the Kepler telescope, including Kepler 452b, a planet that has been nicknamed Earth's 'cousin', reside in a zone favourable to these conditions...
