Kepler mission
Kepler’s Almost Out of Fuel. It’ll Make its Last Observation in a Few Months
The Kepler mission, which is responsible for the majority of exoplanet discoveries, is running out of fuel and will be…
A New Planetary System Has Been Found with Three Super Earths
A team of astronomers recently discovered a system of three exoplanets that are just 100 light years from Earth, making…
Researchers Just Scanned 14 Worlds From the Kepler Mission for “Technosignatures”, Evidence of Advanced Civilizations
In the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a team of astronomers recently searched through the Kepler field to look for…
Neptune-Sized Exomoon Found Orbiting a Jupiter-Sized Planet?
A new study by an astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research shows that the first exomoon…
Not an Alien Megastructure, a Cloud of Dust on a 700-Day Orbit
A new study by an international team of researchers has proposed a new theory about Tabby's Star, indicating that it…
Exoplanet-Hunters Detect Two New “Warm Jupiters”
A new study conducted by an international team of astronomers has revealed two new "Warm Jupiter" exoplanets in two distant…
Kepler Spots the First Exomoon Candidate 4000 Light Years From Earth
Relying on Kepler data, a recent study led by researchers from the University of Columbia has turned up the first…
Earth-Sized Planet Takes Just Four Hours to Orbit its Star
The Kepler space observatory has made some interesting finds since it began its mission back in March of 2009. Even…
NASA Announces 10, That’s Right 10! New Planets in Their Star’s Habitable Zone
The latest catalog to be released by the Kepler mission features and additional 10 potentially-habitable planets, and has led to…
We Have More Details on the Outermost Trappist-1 Planet!
A new study by an international team of researchers has revealed information about the surface conditions on TRAPPIST-1's outermost planet.