Kepler's first major exoplanet discoveries were not announced until more than a year had passed since the spacecraft started collecting scientific data, and by that time many exoplanet scientists not working on the project had become frustrated with the lack of results coming from the Kepler ...
NASA has partnered with Google to harness Machine learning and discovered a new planet outside our solar system, The Kepler-90i.
2018, that Kepler has run out of fuel and is being retired within its current and safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 exoplanet discoveries. Credits: NASA/Wendy Stenzel/Daniel Rutter
NASA’s Kepler exoplanet hunter has transformed our view of the Cosmos. In the years since it was launched in 2009, it has confirmed the discovery of hundreds of small alien worlds and glimpsed thousands of candidates. Astronomers have even been able to use Kepler data to estimate that ...
Twelve Exoplanet discoveries from Kepler that are less than twice the size of Earth and reside in...
SETI Institute to Honor Contributions to Exoplanet Research with its Carl Sagan Center Director’s Award • Apr. 24, 2025, 7:48 AM ET (SETI Institute) ...(Show more) Kepler, U.S. satellite that detected extrasolar planets by watching—from orbit around the Sun—for a slight dimming ...
Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds Star's swan song captured by Hubble Telescope | Space picture of the day for April 15, 2025 Hubble Space Telescope at 35 | Space photo of the day for April 24, 2025 ...
exoplanet measured it is possible to determine the basic composition, a gas planet like our Jupiter and Saturn, an ice giant like Neptune or Uranus, or a small rocky world more like our Earth. This additional data turned the trove of Kepler discoveries into real information about the universe...
Exomoons represent a crucial missing puzzle piece in our efforts to understand extrasolar planetary systems. To address this deficiency, we here describe an exomoon survey of 70 cool, giant transiting exoplanet candidates found by Kepler. We identify only one exhibiting a moon-like signal that pass...
The researchers pointed out the probability that the exoplanet detections were false positives is only 1 in 10,000. “Just as we expected, there are exciting discoveries lurking in our archived Kepler data, waiting for the right tool or technology to unearth them,” said Paul Hertz, ...