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: ...

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.

Not only is there a decade of Kepler data to sort though still, but NASA’s next generation planet hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is already in space.

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 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 ...

Scientists, utilizing data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope, have made a groundbreaking ... reduction in size of specific sub-Neptune planets. Christiansen's team suggested a compelling ...