24 November 2021
Astronomers discover more than 350 possible new exoplanets
... the brightest stars near Earth for transiting exoplanets, Kepler’s data haul – the spacecraft downlinked roughly twelve ... potential habitable exoplanets. However, because of the problems Kepler experienced, scientists have not been able to use the ...
22 March 2016
Astronomers catch a supernova shock wave in visible light for the first time
...was made possible by the team, who analysed light captured by Kepler every 30 minutes over a three-year period, searching some 50...crime after the event, we can study brightness histories from Kepler to find out what was happening in the exact hour ...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
A new evaluation of Kepler data on the sizes of exoplanets indicates that planets... planets we are now accustomed to finding. Most notable in this task has been Kepler, which has found, along with its extended K2 mission, around 2700 confirmed planets...
04 October 2018
Astronomers find compelling evidence for first confirmed exomoon
... is the size that the candidate moon, called Kepler-1625b-i, is. Kepler-1625b-i is roughly the size of our own ...observations by Hubble are needed to fully confirm the existence of Kepler-1625b-i, as such gargantuan moons are unknown in our own Solar...
14 June 2016
Astronomers discover a giant planet orbiting two suns
...'s homeland in "Star Wars.” The planets official status is Kepler-1647b, a Jupiter size planet with a very long orbital ...of the paper. "We weren't expecting to find anything like [Kepler-1647b], with such a long orbital period because those kinds of...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
... TESS builds on the success of similar missions such as Kepler, but whereas Kepler was limited to a field of view that covered 115... all at once. To compare, it would take around 400 Kepler-like telescopes all looking at a different patch of sky, all...
