NASA’s Kepler and TESS missions used the technique, and the James Webb Space Telescope will even be able to study transiting exoplanets to suss out details of their atmosphere and find planets ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...

Kepler-1658b orbits closer to the star Kepler 1658 than Mercury does to our sun, completing a full circle of the star every 3.85 days. But researchers now say that orbital period is decreasing by ...

If you’re one of the more than 1.5 billion Earthlings self-isolating because of COVID-19, a new series of posters from NASA are aimed at inspiring you to take a trip across the universe. NASA took a ...

When she was a graduate student at Harvard University, Dressing studied exoplanets found by a TESS predecessor, NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The planets she studied orbited a type of star known as a ...

With a 28-foot-wide mirror, the Rubin telescope is not the world’s largest. But it does have the world’s largest digital camera, which snaps super-high-resolution pictures.

Astronomers have discovered about 4,000 alien planets to date. Most of these finds have come courtesy of NASA's recently deceased Kepler space telescope, whose observations suggest that 20% to 25% ...

Just in time for Halloween, NASA released two new posters on Tuesday showcasing exoplanets HD 189733 b and PSR B1257+12 c, existing in “a place only sophisticated telescopes” could reach in a ...

Just in time for Halloween, NASA released two new posters on Tuesday showcasing exoplanets HD 189733 b and PSR B1257+12 c, existing in “a place only sophisticated telescopes” could reach in a ...

First Planet Discovered With NASA's Kepler Telescope Finally Confirmed, 10 Years On 3 minutes read Published Mar 06, 2019 at 9:46 AM EST Updated Mar 28, 2019 at 10:45 AM EDT ...

The final images from the Kepler Space Telescope have arrived. After nearly a decade of operation, NASA’s groundbreaking telescope ran out of fuel last year and was placed into permanent sleep ...