When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

Learn how to solve and verify Kepler’s Third Law for circular orbits. This video walks through the physics and mathematics connecting orbital period, radius, and gravitational force, showing how ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A super-Earth basks in the glow of its star in this artist's impression. Is the world habitable ...

NASA's Kepler mission ended in 2018 after more than nine years of fruitful planet-hunting. The space telescope discovered thousands of planets, many of which bear its name. But it also generated an ...

Scientists analyzing four years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission have released a new catalog of exoplanet candidates. The catalog adds more than 500 new possible planets to the 4,175 already found ...

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the ...

This image from the paper is a visual representation of the planets in their abbreviated catalogue, showing planets by size and stellar temperature. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: ...