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15 Apr 2020

Earth-size, habitable zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data

NASA on Wednesday announced that scientists have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. It added that a team of transatlantic scientists using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, made the discovery.

26 Jan 2020

Scientists come across 'Vampire' star gorging on victim

The new program acts as a detective to find clues of very fast, mysterious explosions in the universe.

10 Jan 2019

Citizen scientists find new planet, twice Earth's size, using NASA telescope

Located 226 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, the planet lies in a stellar system known as K2-288.

05 Dec 2018

Astronomers discover over 100 new exoplanets

They confirmed that 104 of them are really exoplanets. Seven of the confirmed exoplanets have ultra-short orbital periods less than 24 hours.

NASA`s space telescope

06 Sep 2018

Planet hunting Kepler telescope wakes up again: NASA

After the Kepler space telescope, Tess is the second spacecraft which will search for planets outside our solar system, including those that could support life.

16 Mar 2018

Kepler may run out of fuel within several months, says NASA

NASA's Kepler 'K2' mission has already completed 16 campaigns, and this month entered its 17th.

12 Mar 2018

Google AI that helped NASA find exoplanets now open for all

Google hopes the open-sourced code will prove a useful starting point for developing similar models for other NASA missions, like K2 (Kepler's second mission) and the upcoming "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite" mission.

15 Dec 2017

Here's how Google AI helped NASA in its discovery of two exoplanets

The Google AI found exoplanets using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.

15 Dec 2017

Big Kepler revelation: NASA discovers a solar system just like ours with eight planets

Sitting around a Sun-like star 2,545 light years away in the constellation Draco, Kepler-90i – like Earth – is also the third rock from its sun - though it sits much closer, circling its star every 14.4 days.

11 Dec 2017

Do aliens exist? NASA likely to make big revelation soon

As per a press release by NASA, the team at the Kepler Space Telescope has been searching for extra-terrestrial life since 2009, and now they have found something spell binding.

05 Oct 2017

Reason behind mysterious dips in brightness of 'alien megastructure' star discovered

The Boyajian Star, as it is also known, was recently in the news after astronomers discovered that it had started dimming again.

28 Jul 2017

Have astronomers found the first exomoon beyond our solar system? - Read

The Kepler Space Telescope finds planets by watching them pass in front of their stars, causing a dip in the stars’ light. The new potential moon was found in the same way – as a moon orbits its planet, it leads to an extra fall in the starlight coming from behind.

20 Jun 2017

NASA's Kepler telescope finds 219 new planet candidates; 10 of which are Earth-like worlds

With the latest release, Kepler has detected a total of 4,034 planet candidates, of which 2,335 have been verified as exoplanets.

24 May 2017

Mysterious 'alien megastructure' star starts dimming again, leaves astronomers baffled - Watch video

Astronomers are baffled as the most mysterious 'alien megastructure' star in the Universe just kicked into action again with its light dimming in bizarre ways.

TRAPPIST-1 system

23 May 2017

NASA's Kepler telescope reveals orbital details of TRAPPIST-1 system's outermost and least understood planet

Astronomers studying NASA's Kepler Space Telescope identified a regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, confirming suspected details about the orbit of its outermost and least understood planet, TRAPPIST-1h.

21 May 2017

Scientists baffled after mysterious 'alien megastructure' star starts dimming again!

As per reports, on Friday, May 19, a sudden dip in brightness of the Tabby Star observed in the skies, resulted in many astronomers pointing their telescopes at the star to decode its curious signals.

19 May 2017

NASA's Hubble triumphs again, discovers moon orbiting solar system's third-largest dwarf planet!

The team uncovered the moon in archival images of 2007 OR10 taken by the Hubble Telescope.

10 Apr 2017

Venus look-alike planet discovered orbiting dim dwarf star!

The study of planets similar to the Venus analogue Kepler 1649b is "becoming increasingly important in order to understand the habitable zone boundaries of M dwarfs.

09 Mar 2017

Exoplanets discovery: NASA's Kepler provides more information about TRAPPIST-1

Scientists believe the release of the raw, uncalibrated data collected will aid astronomers in preparing proposals due this month to use telescopes on Earth next winter to further investigate TRAPPIST-1.

Pleiades star cluster

13 Aug 2016

NASA's Kepler watches stellar dancers in Pleiades cluster!

The US space agency NASA has released a beautiful image of the Pleiades cluster of stars which was seen through the eyes of WISE, or its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

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