This led to the discovery of Kepler-34 and Kepler-35, and a candidate system KOI-2939. KOI-2939 (Kepler Input Catalog 14 number 05473556) exhibited a single transit at BJD (barycentric Julian date ...

Scientists detected the new planet in the Kepler-16 system: a pair of orbiting stars that eclipse each other from our point of view on Earth. A primary eclipse occurs when the larger star is partially ...

A new planet found last fall may be orbiting two stars, but it's far from a real-life Tatooine. Dubbed Kepler-16b, the world is a cold, Saturn-size gas giant with little chance of hosting desert ...

The Kepler-16 star system is just 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan). Because it's so close, it should be visible to many amateur skywatchers, researchers said.

The only fully validated multiple transiting planet system to appear in the literature to date is Kepler-9, with two giant planets 5 orbiting exterior to a planet whose radius is only 1.6 times ...

Before Johannes Kepler’s Third Law, the motions of the planets around the Sun were a mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

the host stars in Kepler-34b are more Sun-like than the Kepler-16 system. These observations indicate that giant exoplanets orbiting two stars may be fairly common, occurring in perhaps one ...

The discovery is the Kepler-444 system, which contains five small rocky planets that formed over 11 billion years ago. As far as the Kepler data was concerned, Kepler-444 was simply a single star ...

The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system appeared to have little in common with the planets of our own solar system today. But a new study using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope ...

NASA has discovered the smallest planet ever seen beyond our solar system – a rocky world just 1.4 times larger than Earth – using its planet-hunting Kepler observatory. The planet ...