Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday. Already well past its ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has two planets that orbit their star in a unique style, like an old-fashioned ...

It is well known that the universe still hides millions of secrets that remain to be discovered from the dark silences of space Recently, astronomers made a discovery hidden in plain sight. Despite ...

The newfound planet, called Kepler-725c, revealed itself only through "transit timing variations." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...