Kepler mission
Could Garnet Planets be Habitable?
A study presented at the 229th Meeting of the AAS examines how the composition of stars can produce very different…
This Star Is The Roundest Natural Object Ever Seen
Using data obtained by the Kepler mission, international team of astronomers have found the roundest object yet in the universe!
Tabby’s Star Megastructure Mystery Continues To Intrigue
Almost a year later after it was first noticed, the mystery of Tabby's Star and its unusual dimming continues to…
Student Discovers Four New Planets
A student at the University of British Columbia has discovered four new exoplanets in Kepler data.
2007 OR10 Needs A Name. We Suggest Dwarfplanet McDwarfplanetyface
Astronomers using the Kepler spacecraft and data from the Herschel Space Observatory have given us a revealing glimpse of dwarf…
Spinning Worlds: Orrery of Kepler’s Exoplanets, Part IV
The past few years, Daniel Fabrycky from the Kepler spacecraft science team has put together some terrific orrery-type visualization of…
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What’s Orbiting KIC 8462852 – Shattered Comet or Alien Megastructure?
"Bizarre." "Interesting." "Giant transit". That were the reactions of Planet Hunters project volunteers when they got their first look at the light…
NASA’s Next Exoplanet Hunter Moves Into Development
NASA's ongoing hunt for exoplanets has entered a new phase as NASA officially confirmed that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…
Kepler’s Universe: More Planets in Our Galaxy Than Stars
Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and thanks to the Kepler mission, we can…
Second Planetary System Like Ours Discovered
A team of European astronomers has discovered a second planetary system, the closest parallel to our own solar system yet…