Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets – almost half of the total – in its almost ten years of operation. However, most data ...

What makes the Kepler-51 system even more puzzling is the apparent stability of these planets’ massive atmospheres despite the intense radiation from their young, active star. These conditions ...

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density ... "The three previously known planets that orbit the star Kepler-51 are about the size of Saturn but only a few times the mass ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...