Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: The scarcity…
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Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered an Earth-sized planet that zips around its star every 3.14 days. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle, Christine Daniloff, MIT…
Illustration of an exoplanet. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight…
An artist’s concept of what Kepler-1649c could look like from its surface. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data…
Artist’s impression of an exoplanet smaller than Neptune. A new study suggests a reason why such planets rarely grow larger than Neptune: the planet’s magma…
This artist’s impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is now the only super-Earth exoplanet known…
Artist’s impression of NASA’s Kepler space telescope, which discovered thousands of new planets. New research, using Kepler data, provides the most accurate estimate to date…
NASA’s Kepler space telescope may be retired, but the discoveries continue to rack up for this historic planet-hunting mission. Kepler rang in the new year…