James Webb Space Telescope adds a fourth planet to Kepler-51 system The discovery of Kepler-51e was prompted by an unexpected observation during a planned study of Kepler-51d using NASA's James ...

The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6, 2009, with the goal of observing more than 100,000 stars in ...

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 ...