When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...
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Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...
Learn how to solve and verify Kepler’s Third Law for circular orbits. This video walks through the physics and mathematics connecting orbital period, radius, and gravitational force, showing how ...
HD 137010 b, a new Earth-like planet found 146 light-years away, may be habitable. Discovered by NASA Kepler data, further ...
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the ...