The new discovery of six alien planets orbiting a sunlike star may be only a small part of the data released Wednesday from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, but it is significant as the most ...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope detected 1,235 possible extra-solar planets during its first four months of operation, astronomers announced Wednesday, including 68 approximately ...

Using NASA’s orbiting Kepler observatory, astronomers have found a complete solar system of six planets orbiting a sun-like star… and it’s really weird: five of the six planets huddle closer to their ...

When NASA Kepler Space Observatory scientists announced the discovery of over 1,200 planets around other stars last week, my colleague, veteran science writer Dennis Overbye, wrote in the New York ...

Communication with the Kepler satellite has been restored, and the spacecraft is now in a stable safe mode. Whether the planet-hunting spacecraft can continue with its scheduled mission is yet to be ...

This image from the paper is a visual representation of the planets in their abbreviated catalogue, showing planets by size and stellar temperature. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: ...

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Days after they declared a spacecraft emergency over the Kepler space telescope, NASA engineers say the craft has now recovered and that they're working to figure out what happened. Kepler, which is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

NASA experienced a close call this weekend with its planet-seeking Kepler space telescope. On April 7 th, during a scheduled contact, mission operations engineers discovered that Kepler was in ...