We will never hear from NASA’s Kepler space telescope again. On October 30, the space agency announced the telescope’s mission... 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
Add another 95 exoplanets to the total tally discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft. One of them orbits the brightest star,... Read More
Planetary systems outside our own tend to follow a similar pattern. The planets are usually around the same size and... 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
The dry furnace of Arizona or the wet heat of Florida. Hot is hot. But these corners of the U.S.... Read More
8.5 billion miles away from the Sun sits a cold world bathed in darkness. Known as 2014 UZ224, it’s the... Read More
NASA’s Kepler telescope is best known for looking for minuscule dips in brightness around stars to spot planets. But that’s... Read More
181 light years away, four planets pass in front of their star – K2-72. Kepler has just spotted a handful... Read More
Since its launch in 2009, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft (with some help from other telescopes) has discovered close to 3,000 planets.... Read More
Scientists officially call them circumbinary planets, but even they can’t help but dub them ‘Tatooine’ planets. The latest ‘Tatooine’ planet... Read More
Scientists call it the Faint Young Sun Paradox. Around four billion years ago, the sun’s brightness was about three-quarters of... Read More
