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When exoplanets come up, we're usually adding to the total number of known worlds beyond our solar system, but not today. MIT astronomers applied the latest astronomical data to Kepler's archive of ...
An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density "super-puff" planets has at least one more planet, according to new research led by researchers from Penn State and Osaka University. The ...
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 10 years of operation. However, most data ...
Humanity has long imagined leaving Earth and establishing a second home among the stars. The idea of a backup planet is no longer confined to science fiction, especially as astronomers continue ...
Volunteers spotted something in old data, and the dip in starlight may belong to an Earth-sized world that takes roughly a ...
Introduction]“A rocky planet that, despite having almost the same size and mass as Earth, orbits at a furious speed of just 8 ...
The other subject is Kepler-62, a "main sequence" star at a similar phase in its evolution as our sun. Using a 3D global climate computer model normally employed to study Earth's environment, the ...
IMAGE: Among thousands of known exoplanets, MIT astronomers have flagged three that are actually stars. Pictured is an artist’s interpretation of stars and planets. CREDIT: NASA A new study published ...
Experts have discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets, but an exomoon has yet to be definitely discovered, despite the 2018 announcement there was something orbiting Kepler-1625b. But now, researchers ...
The Kepler Spacecraft has detected a lot of exoplanets orbiting stars in other solar systems, but its data may have just uncovered an exomoon for the first time. NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech Scientists may ...