Three months into its observations and TESS was already finding confirmed exoplanets. Another 280+ potential exoplanets are getting follow-up observations... Read More
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) officially began scouring the sky for exoplanets last month. Today, astronomers announce the first... Read More
NASA’s Kepler along with a pair of telescopes on Earth confirmed 15 new exoplanets recently. All of them orbiting red... Read More
For Kepler’s first four years, it stared at a patch of sky in the Cygnus constellation. As it trailed behind... Read More
NASA’s Kepler mission is back in the spotlight with Kepler-452b, a near-Earth-size planet discovered in the “habitable zone” around a... Read More
Seems like an easy question, right? It was, until the 1990s. Before the 1990s, a planet was defined as any... Read More
The first phase of the Kepler mission discovered thousands of potential exoplanets. 1,031 of these were confirmed while the other... Read More
Update: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has entered emergency mode. The mission team has declared a spacecraft emergency giving them priority access... Read More
40 light years from Earth sits an ultracool dwarf star formerly known as 2MASS J23062928-0502285. Today, it’s called TRAPPIST-1 after... Read More