Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However, most data ...

The study of planets beyond the solar system has reached an unprecedented milestone, with over 5,700 confirmed exoplanets.

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

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In the case of Kepler, the team did. The mirror was moved by a mere 40 micrometres and the images sharpened. And so, the mission got to work. Whereas it was a long wait to detect an exoplanet with ...

Kepler-51e’s orbit, just inside the s... Indian scientists have identified a new exoplanet named TOI-6651b, which is five times larger than Earth and has a mass around 60 times greater.

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

Here are some pics of most earth-like exoplanets uploaded by NASA: Gliese 667Cc, 22 light-years from Earth, is 4.5 times Earth's mass, orbits its cooler red dwarf star in 28 days, and likely resides ...

Most of those observations were made by the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which for four consecutive years kept an eye on a small patch of sky containing a few hundred thousand stars.