Kepler found New Planets better than Earth
The Kepler Telescope was built for one purpose: To look at a certain patch in the Milky Way in search of exoplanets.
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Planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope retired
NASA ‘retires’ planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, that discovered 2,600 exoplanets.
Kepler announces largest Collection of Planets ever discovered
NASA’s Kepler space telescope mission has just verified 1,284 new planets, doubling its haul in largest exoplanet discovery ever. 2,325 exoplanets and counting…
Kepler space telescope finds 715 new worlds
NASA’s newly developed technique to spot new planets by using the Kepler space telescope, confirmed the existence of 715 exoplanets, including four that they are in habitable
Kepler Planet-Hunting hits major technical problems [update]
NASA’s Kepler Planet-Hunting telescope has lost its ability to point toward stars, because one of the reaction wheels that control the telescope’s orientation in space,
More exoplanets from Kepler
This illustration shows the 63 hot Jupiter systems, planetary systems with Jupiter-size planet candidates in three-day orbits, and their stars as well as approximate stellar
Kepler finds two more Exoplanets orbiting Binary Stars
Using data from NASA’s Kepler Mission, San Diego State University astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting “circumbinary” planet systems — planets that orbit
Kepler mission finds three Smallest Exoplanets
Astronomers announced today that they found three new planets outside our solar system, that they are the smallest exoplanets yet discovered—each of them tinier than
First Rocky Planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission (video)
NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet
Neptune-Sized Moon in a Distant Solar System discovered
An ‘exomoon’ that is almost three times the size of Earth orbiting a Jupiter-sized planet, discovered outside our Solar System.
