The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it ...

Our quest to find a “second Earth” has long occupied scientists and dreamers alike. The possibility of another world ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

BYUH students share their understanding of exoplanets and what humanity’s enduring hunt for life outside the solar system ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

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 ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

Today we have confirmed about 4,000 exoplanets. The majority were discovered by the Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009. Kepler’s mission was to see how many planets it could find orbiting ...

New Delhi, Nov 01 (ANI): After over-working, the Kepler Space Telescope is finally taking its final nap. The spacecraft functioned more number of years than its fuel levels permitted and helped ...

“It's remarkable what we've been able to learn about the orbits of planets around other stars using the Kepler Space Telescope,” Petigura said. “The telescope was named after Johannes ...

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 ...