At that time only 80 exoplanets had been discovered since ... On December 5, 2011, Kepler-22b’s discovery electrified the world, as it was the first “super-Earth” discovered orbiting in ...

A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

And Kepler-16 b, located roughly 250 light-years away, is the real deal. Discovered in 2011, this exoplanet defies the traditional solitary planetary orbit by circling two stars — much like the ...

Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets and to identify 2,300 candidate planets now awaiting confirmation via further ...

It found plenty, but some discoveries were easier to verify than others, and the very first exoplanet ever detected by Kepler has only just been confirmed. When scientists first notice evidence of ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the ... still has plenty of power to comb the heavens for undetected exoplanets. In order to spot these new worlds, scientists began sifting ...

They then compared the occurrence rates of these planets using data from NASA's TESS, or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, for the younger population and from Kepler for the older population.

Using this technique, and by gathering the light curves from these stars, Kepler uncovered thousands of exoplanets. The UCLA team turned to 1,600 of these light curves to extract information about ...