Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets – almost ...

The giant exoplanet, named HD 189733 b, is 11% bigger than Jupiter and sits 64.5 light-years away from our Solar System - but ...

The Kepler spacecraft is in the final moments of its life. NASA isn’t quite sure when they’ll say their last goodbye to the space telescope which has confirmed the existence of thousands of ...

When NASA announced the spacecraft was beyond hope of repair, most assumed the mission would end. Even by that point, Kepler was an unqualified success and had provided us with enough data to keep ...

under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Support for MAST for non-HST data is provided by the NASA Science Mission Directorate via grant NNX13AC07G and by other grants and contracts. This paper includes data ...

The exoplanetary system is twice as distant as any seen previously by Kepler, which found ... Later this decade NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope. Roman will find potentially ...

The authors gratefully acknowledge everybody who has made Kepler, and especially the K2 mission, possible. K. E. C. and K. G. S. gratefully acknowledge support from NASA Astrophysical Data Analysis ...

has outpaced the now-retired Kepler mission in discovering planets and planet candidates primarily because of the former's ...

In addition, Doug is also the Instrument Scientist for NASA’s Kepler Mission, an ambitious, space-borne telescope that has examined over one hundred thousand stars and found thousands of planets, many ...

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 ...