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A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...
Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...
The planet, which can be seen in the foreground, was discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. Three Planets Found Around Kepler-18 Star Tim Jones/McDonald Obs./UT-Austin ...
While looking at compiled data from NASA’s now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered the existence of a seven-planet system of sweltering planets larger than Earth but ...
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars ...
NASA's Kepler space telescope is just beginning its three-year mission to find Earth-like planets in habitable zones around stars. The first new planets it has found, announced Monday, include two ...
NASA said Thursday that its Kepler spacecraft has spotted “Earth’s bigger, older cousin”: the first nearly Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star similar to our own.
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Kepler also has discovered more than ...
The Kepler wake-up whipsaw continues. NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,650 alien planets to date, emerged from yet another slumber Thursday (Oct. 11), agency ...
NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which discovered more than 2,680 exoplanets orbiting distant stars and allowed scientists to statistically show billions more must exist across the Milky Way, has finally ...
The NASA Kepler space telescope discovers planet candidates, including 10 in the habitable zone. (Photo courtesy of NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel) ...
Kepler-22b, the discovery of which was announced in December 2011, is one of many planets that bear the space telescope's name. Getty Images The planet-hunting career of NASA's Kepler spacecraft ...