Illustration of the Kepler-51 system and its inner three planets, which have unusually low density. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suggest that at least one more planet is in ...
The researchers said they had no reason to believe the three-planet model of the Kepler-51 system was inaccurate, and they successfully used the model to predict the transit time of Kepler-51b in May ...
The Kepler Space Telescope was launched in 2009 to explore planets outside our solar system (known as exoplanets). During its 11-year mission, the telescope discovered an astonishing 2,600 ...
This is an artist's rendition of the Kepler-35 planet system, in which a Saturn-size planet orbits a pair of stars. The larger star is similar to the size of the Sun, while the smaller star is 79 ...
The local star field around the system is shown using real colour imaging obtained with the ground-based Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope ... observed by Kepler from space. The trace of this signal with ...
The research team set out to study Kepler-51d, the third planet in the system, with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but almost missed their chance when the planet unexpectedly passed in ...