The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

A new, unseen planet named Kepler-139f has been discovered in the Kepler-139 star system. It's twice as massive as Neptune!

This makes it 35 times the mass of Earth and a year on its planet lasts 355 days, the discoverers noted in their findings published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet was detected after ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

Kepler Planet Hunter Nears End Of Epic Journey. 50 Comments . by: Tom Nardi. July 31, 2018. Title: Copy. Short Link: Copy. The Kepler spacecraft is in the final moments of its life.

Kepler has discovered 4,034 possible planets orbiting distant suns, 2,335 of which have been confirmed as actual planets. This chart shows previous discoveries in blue with newly announced ...

The Kepler mission enabled the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, revealing a deep truth about our place in the cosmos: There are more planets than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

While looking at compiled data from NASA’s now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered the existence of a seven-planet system of sweltering planets larger than Earth but ...

Kepler-1658b was first identified in Kepler data in 2009, but it took a full decade before additional analysis officially confirmed its existence. Now it turns out the gigantic planet as massive ...