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
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
Update: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has entered emergency mode. The mission team has declared a spacecraft emergency giving them priority access... 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
Seems like an easy question, right? It was, until the 1990s. Before the 1990s, a planet was defined as any... 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
