124 light-years away is ​K2-18b, a distant world orbiting a red dwarf star in the constellation Leo. It was discovered in ...

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Key findings include: Kepler Space Telescope: Data from Kepler identified four Earth-sized rogue planets in the Galactic Bulge using microlensing signals, confirming the existence of small, starless ...

Astronomers discovered K2-18b in 2015, using data from the Kepler Space Telescope. It was a type of planet commonly found outside our solar system, but one without any analog near Earth that ...

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which was first spotted by the Kepler Space Telescope in 2015. Since its discovery, K2-18 b, as it is known, has been of particular interest to astronomers because it circles its star in the so ...

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Using observations from the Kepler space telescope’s K2 mission, we had a rare opportunity to track the evolution of stars during most of their journey through the giant phase of the stellar ...