The Webb Telescope has helped discover a fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system ... about 2,600 light-years from Earth. The research findings were published in "The Astronomical Journal." ...

As with many space telescope missions, Kepler's dataset is open to the public. NASA maintains a database with the raw data collected during the space telescope's observations, and researchers are ...

That spacecraft, the Kepler Space Telescope, remains humanity’s most prolific planet hunter so far, having spied thousands of distant planets and many more candidate ones. In Hidden in the ...

In short order he began making astronomical findings that would ... and stars upside down? Kepler's advance created a new challenge, however. Because his telescope offered a much greater field ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

Previous observations led by astronomer Emily Leiner using NASA's retired Kepler space telescope had revealed ... triple star system in such detail. The findings would help stellar evolution ...

In a new study published in Science, researchers examined brightness data collected by NASA’s Kepler telescope between ... With these findings, scientists now have a clearer understanding ...