The newly discovered planet, named Kepler-51e, was revealed through subtle yet telling anomalies in the transit of one of the system’s previously known planets.This detection adds a new layer of ...

"If Kepler-452b is indeed a rocky planet, its location vis-a-vis its star ... or 0.00001585 of a light year. Nasa's New Horizon probe is currently the fastest craft we have at around 36,373 ...

The chance that a background star is affected this way by a planet is tens to hundreds of millions to one against. But there are hundreds of millions of stars towards the centre of our Galaxy. So ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

Dr Iain McDonald Follow me on X (opens in new window) Follow me on Facebook (opens in new window) Add me on LinkedIn (opens in new window) Kepler was not designed to find planets using microlensing, ...

The central star of the Kepler-385 system closely resembles our Sun but is about 10% larger and 5% hotter. Among its seven planets, the two innermost ones, only slightly larger than Earth ...

In this illustration super-Earth Kepler-138 d is in the foreground. To the left, the planet ... [+] Kepler-138 c, and in the background the planet Kepler 138 b, seen in silhouette transiting its ...

Two significant additional discoveries-the identification of twin water worlds, Kepler-138c and d, and the existence of water ...