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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The research team set out to study Kepler-51d, the third planet in the system, with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but almost missed their chance when the planet unexpectedly passed in ...

“That planet shouldn’t be there.” Today we have confirmed about 4,000 exoplanets. The majority were discovered by the Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009. Kepler’s mission was to see ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

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

took up where Kepler left off. It focused its planet-finding efforts on stars in our immediate galactic neighborhood. The powerful James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, is scrutinizing ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

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.