The final observing campaign of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope lasted only a month. As the spacecraft began to run low on attitude control fuel, it couldn’t maintain its position long enough to ...

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However, Borucki, now a space scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, didn't abandon his preoccupation with aliens. For two decades, he has argued that by taking pictures of planets as they pass ...

And, because NASA’s now-retired Kepler space telescope discovered it ... showing the orbits of Kepler-385’s seven planets. Image source: NASA/Daniel Rutter The newly discovered Kepler-385 ...

Ashley Chontos, Princeton's Henry Norris Russell Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics, was part of a team discovering that Kepler-1658b is spiraling to its doom around its aging star, providing a ...

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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 ...

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 ...