Although a broken reaction wheel on NASA's Kepler spacecraft is bad news for its primary exoplanet-hunting mission, the glitch could be a boon for the study of stellar physics NASA’s exoplanet-hunting ...

This paper describes the eccentricity, amplitude, phase shift, angular momentum, polarization, radial path, and orbital ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope could be used to find exomoons, which are the moons of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. That is the claim of an international team of astronomers, which says ...

A few months ago, I wrote a blog about NASA’s Kepler space telescope being in a spot of trouble, as the spacecraft shut down and went into “safe mode”. The problem was that two of the four ...

The first planet ever spotted by the Kepler space telescope is falling into its star. Kepler launched in 2009 on a mission to find exoplanets by watching them cross in front of their stars. The first ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...

Six hundred and thirty-five light years away from Earth, there is a world that seems to promise something almost unimaginable: a planet covered in a vast liquid ocean, where survival might actually be ...

NASA’s premier planet-hunting space telescope is out of gas. The Kepler space telescope can no longer search for planets orbiting other stars, ending its nearly 10-year mission, officials from the ...

Simply identifying why some planets are wet and others are dry could go a long way toward narrowing down the search. A team of researchers has demonstrated a new way in which sub-Neptune-sized ...

A little more than two decades ago, no planets had ever been detected outside the solar system. Now, more than 1,000 extrasolar planets have been confirmed, and on Monday the team behind the Kepler ...

It was Johannes Kepler (the German mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher) who first laid the groundwork that became our Newtonian understanding of planetary motion. Kepler realized, and first ...

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting telescope has always had an unsung talent for star physics on the side. Now that Kepler’s primary mission is compromised by broken reaction wheels on the spacecraft, some ...