An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density "super-puff" planets has at least one more planet, according ...

"If Kepler-452b is indeed a rocky planet, its location vis-a-vis its star ... or 0.00001585 of a light year. Nasa's New Horizon probe is currently the fastest craft we have at around 36,373 ...

How many exoplanets are in the cosmos and what can they tell us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a ...

The chance that a background star is affected this way by a planet is tens to hundreds of millions to one against. But there are hundreds of millions of stars towards the centre of our Galaxy. So ...

Dr Iain McDonald Follow me on X (opens in new window) Follow me on Facebook (opens in new window) Add me on LinkedIn (opens in new window) Kepler was not designed to find planets using microlensing, ...

Kepler found more than 2,600 exoplanets, revealed that there are more planets than stars in the Milky Way, and gave researchers new insight into the diversity of planet types. The telescope also ...

In a new study published in Astrophysical Journal ... NASA was looking at old Kepler data from 2018 when they realised one of the planets, Kepler 1649c, had been misidentified.

Presented in a new research paper, the discoveries were made by a group of international researchers sifting through the incredible wealth of data that Kepler has relayed. The planets discovered ...

The discovery of Kepler-385 has also revealed that planets tend to have more circular ... he can usually be found enjoying a new world in a video game, or tinkering with something on his computer.

Illustration of the Kepler-51 system and its inner three planets, which have unusually low density. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suggest that at least one more planet is in ...

The central star of the Kepler-385 system closely resembles our Sun but is about 10% larger and 5% hotter. Among its seven planets, the two innermost ones, only slightly larger than Earth ...