NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star’s
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The low density of some exoplanets is confirmed
The Kepler mission and its extension, called K2, discovered thousands of exoplanets. It detected them using the transit technique, measuring
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New algorithm digs up 18 Earth-like exoplanets from old Kepler data
So far almost 4,000 planets have been discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun, and that tally is constantly growing.
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NASA to Make Announcement About Kepler Telescope
NASA is about to make an announcement about the Kepler, potentially to say the planet-hunting telescope has finally run out
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Last gasp? NASA fires up fading Kepler telescope for Campaign 19
Although the science mission of its successor, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now underway, NASA isn’t done with
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