Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

M. Keck Observatory of all KOIs with Kp (Kepler magnitude) < 14.2. Fainter stars were appended for a variety of reasons. The CKS dataset is described in two papers CKS-I: "The California-Kepler Survey ...

Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. During this two-month campaign, Kepler ...

According to new research using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, about half the stars similar in temperature to our Sun could have a rocky planet capable of supporting liquid water on its ...

Note: Not all images are real. Some are artist-imaged illustrations. Gliese 667Cc is 22 light-years away and at least 4.5 times bigger than Earth. It takes 28 days to complete one orbit around its ...

Its characteristics are nothing alike we know for a satellite. Kepler 1625b I is expected to be as massive as Neptune and to orbit at 40 planetary radii around a ten Jupiter mass planet. Because of ...

and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so. Until the likes of Copernicus, Kepler and ...