Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...
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"It's Earth 2.0" What we know about new planet Kepler-452b
including Earth 2.0 (the only one of the 12 to be confirmed as a planet), after analysing four years’ worth of data from Nasa's Kepler telescope. The Kepler telescope detects tiny dips in the ...
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An ancient 3-star system give this 'blue lurker' a turbo boost, Hubble Space Telescope reveals
Previous observations led by astronomer Emily Leiner using NASA's retired Kepler space telescope had revealed that all of M67's 500 stellar residents are about four billion years old, save for a ...
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NASA’s ‘most prolific planet hunter so far’ — the story of the Kepler Space Telescope
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 ...
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NASA’s Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the grave
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 ...
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Webb Telescope spots 'fluffy' new planet in Kepler-51 system
According to the Polish Press Agency, an international team of scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system. This system, famous for its ...
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NASA's Hubble tracks down a 'blue lurker' among stars
The star's high spin rate was discovered with NASA's retired Kepler space telescope. While normal Sun-like stars typically take about 30 days to complete one rotation, the lurker takes only four days.
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Kepler telescope glimpses a free-floating planet population
Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. During this two-month campaign, Kepler ...
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NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers life supporting gases on a planet in space
K2-18 B increases the chance of finding life out there because it has about 2.6 times the radius and 8.6 times the mass of our planet. NASA's Kepler Space Telescope first discovered the planet in ...