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 ...

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 ...

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

This meant that new data reduction techniques had to be developed to look for signals within the Kepler dataset. Dr McDonald said: “These signals are extremely difficult to find. Our observations ...

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 ...