The Kepler telescope was initially set to launch in 2006, but ended up being pushed back to 2009 as the spacecraft design and development proceeded and the Discovery program worked through issues ...

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...

This one simple change from Kepler allowed for considerably higher magnification, and the majority of refracting telescopes are designed this way, even today. Early telescopes were all refracting ...

There have been several observing projects on the Allen Telescope Array. One was a reconnaissance of star systems found to have planets (or planet candidates) by NASA’s Kepler Mission, and especially ...

The researchers used data collected by NASA's Kepler telescope, which monitored 150,000 stars and measured dips in their brightness caused by transiting planets to discover thousands of exoplanets.

Scientists, utilizing data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope, have made a groundbreaking study to unravel the perplexing phenomenon of certain exoplanets diminishing in size. More than ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...