Confirmed 10 years later, a newly-confirmed exoplanet is a massive hot Jupiter that whips around its star every 3.85 days. From the surface, the star would appear 60 times larger in diameter than the Sun as seen from Earth. […]
Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. […]
Scientists using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope identified a regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system that confirmed suspected details about the orbit of its outermost and least understood planet, TRAPPIST-1h. […]
The brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave—what astronomers call the “shock breakout”—has been captured for the first time in the optical wavelength or visible light by NASA’s planet-hunter, the Kepler space telescope.
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Astronomers announced Wednesday that NASA’s Kepler space telescope has confirmed the discovery of 41 new planets. […]
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planets yet found orbiting a star similar to our sun. […]
A free public lecture at Florida Tech on April 26 will focus on the discovery of new planetary systems. […]
