The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

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 into long-standing astronomical mysteries like the "hot Neptune desert" and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kepler scientists have added 833 new exoplanet candidates (potential planets outside our solar system) to the existing database, bringing the total to more than 3,500. Of the 833 potential planets ...

Over 1500 exoplanets have been discovered and confirmed—with several thousand additional candidates, largely from the Kepler mission. As the Astronomy Decadal Survey and National Space Policy ...

The telescope used what's known as the transit method to look for exoplanets (worlds outside our solar system), launching a new era of planetary discovery. Kepler watched over 530,000 stars for ...

Imagine the potential for life and unique environmental conditions if the exoplanet Kepler-22b were located within our solar system.

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.