Kepler detected planets by identifying the dimming ... One question was whether to sharpen the telescope’s focus after the first images seemed slightly blurry. It was designed to be adjusted ...

Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone ... be developed to look for signals within the Kepler dataset. Dr McDonald said: ...

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As with many space telescope missions ... the six years since the end of Kepler's primary mission to help facilitate crunching large sets of data to look for planets around other stars.

The star indicated by the pink lines is animated to show the magnification signal observed by Kepler from space. The trace of this signal with time is shown in the lower right panel. On the left is ...

The Webb Telescope has helped discover a fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system, which is known for its "fluffy" low-density planets. This discovery changes our current understanding of this system.

The addition of Kepler-51e further underscores the complexity of this remarkable system. James Webb Space Telescope adds a fourth planet to Kepler-51 system The discovery of Kepler-51e was ...