Category: Kepler

A new study finds a solar system whose planets may resemble the ancient configuration of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

A recently published study is helping to demystify the largest known object in our solar system without an official name.

Briefing materials for the announcement of 1,284 newly validated Kepler planets

NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, May 10 to announce the latest discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope.

Kepler’s mission manager tells us what happened to the spacecraft and the steps the team took to return it to the job of hunting for planets for the K2 mission.

Astronomers using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory have discovered three planets with sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth, orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth.

The Kepler spacecraft remains stable as the process of returning it to science continues. The cause of the anomaly, first reported on April 8, remains under investigation.

The Kepler spacecraft remains stable as the process of returning it to science continues. The cause of the anomaly, first reported on April 8, remains under investigation.

Mission operations engineers successfully recovered the Kepler spacecraft from Emergency Mode on April 10, 2016.

During a scheduled contact on Thursday, April 7, mission operations engineers discovered that the Kepler spacecraft was in Emergency Mode.

Teaming up on a global experiment in exoplanet observation, NASA’s K2 mission and Earth-based observatories on six continents will use gravitational microlensing to search for exoplanets that are too distant and dark to detect any other way.

For the first time, the shock breakout of a supernova has been caught

Now in its eighth observing campaign, the Kepler spacecraft continues to operate beautifully as the K2 mission.