Exoplanet discoveries hit milestone 6,000 mark, NASA says

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...
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NASA Confirms: 6,000 Planets Beyond Our Solar System Discovered

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

Kepler Data New Discovery: Two Planets' Orbits Overturn Our Understanding

Recently, the field of astronomy has been quite lively, as new discoveries from Kepler data have directly overturned our previous understanding of planetary orbits!
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Exoplanet discoveries continue to grow as NASA’s official count hits 6,000

NASA confirms that the number of discovered exoplanets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, marking a major milestone in space research.
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Kepler space telescope helps uncover true source of KOI-1755 transit signal

A research team led by Ph.D. candidate Wang Haozhi under the supervision of Prof. Ali Esamdin at the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed the ...
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The Kepler Space Telescope May Be Dead, But Its Planet-Hunting Mission Continues

Space-watchers saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, but now it’s official: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, by far the most successful planet-hunting telescope in history, isn’t coming back. Engineers ...
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Kepler, planet-hunting telescope that stirred up alien excitement, at center of NASA announcement this week

Two years after it stirred up speculation about the possibility of alien life, the Kepler Space Telescope will be at the center of a NASA announcement on Thursday. NASA does not mention aliens ...
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Recent Kepler Space Telescope discovery has some wondering: 'Aliens?'

A recent conundrum about a star 1,500 light years away discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope has extraterrestrial enthusiasts crying "alien" as an explanation, but scientists studying the star are ...
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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Earth's Bigger, Older Cousin

The Kepler probe's focus is on finding another habitable planet. — -- NASA says we're on our way to discovering Earth 2.0. The Kepler Space Telescope has located a planet and star closely ...
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Scientists Discover a New 'Mega-Earth'

Astronomers have determined that the planet Kepler-10c, discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope back in 2011 and thought to be a gas giant, is actually solid, making it an unprecedented ...
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NASA's Planet-Hunting Telescope Will Never Hunt Planets Again

On Thursday, NASA announced that they'd given up on repair attempts to the Kepler Space Telescope, after a second navigational wheel critical to the spacecraft's mission (there are four in total) ...