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 ...

Because the new planet, Kepler-51e, has not yet been observed transiting—perhaps because it may not pass in the line of sight between its star and Earth—the researchers noted how important it ...

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 ...

A new discovery by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a new planet in the Kepler-51 system. The Kepler-51 system is a cluster known for its "super-puff" planets with densities ...

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, ...

NASA have discovered a planet bigger than Earth accompanied by gas that is 'only produced by life' in what is an incredible ...

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 ...

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 ...

The researchers monitored a planet known as Kepler 1625b as it passed in front of its parent star. This 19-hour event, known as a transit, blocked out some of the light coming from the star ...