a planet about six hundred light years away.It is the first planet in a"habitable zone"outside the solar system.That means the planet orbits a star like our Sun,but it is not too close to it,nor too far away.Because of this position,scientists say Kepler22b might have water,one of ...
Kepler.gl is an open-source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale datasets that allows users to map accessibility in built environments in different dimensions, opening the possibility to identify which areas are easier to navigate and which may present barriers....
Roughly 1,800 light years away from Earth, Kepler-452b is a 'super-Earth' exoplanet orbiting a star similar to our Sun but substantially older. This artistic concept compares Earth (left) to the new planet, called Kepler-452b, which is about 60...
Although there are many kinds of energy in the world, they all fall into two broad categories:potential energyandkinetic energy. When energy is stored up and waiting to do things, we call it potential energy; "potential" simply means the energy has the ability to do something useful later o...
An artist's concept of Kepler-186f, an Earth-size planet found orbiting in the habitable zone of its parent star. A planet like Kepler-186f with a smaller orbit than Earth's could be at risk of having only one hemisphere face toward the star, with the other hemisphere always facing away...
How Many Stars Are in the Milky Way? It's complicated, but you can use Newton's version of Kepler's Third Law to figure out how many stars are in the Milky Way. E.L. Wright (UCLA), The COBE Project, DIRBE, NASA We mentioned earlier that astronomers have estimated the number of...
“The problems arising when interpreting the data from WASP-39b are well known from many other exoplanets – regardless whether they are observed with Kepler,TESS, James Webb, or the future PLATO spacecraft,” explains MPS scientist Dr. Nadiia Kostogryz, first author of the new study. “As...