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12 Mar 2018

Google AI that helped NASA find exoplanets now open for all

Google hopes the open-sourced code will prove a useful starting point for developing similar models for other NASA missions, like K2 (Kepler's second mission) and the upcoming "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite" mission.

15 Dec 2017

Big Kepler revelation: NASA discovers a solar system just like ours with eight planets

Sitting around a Sun-like star 2,545 light years away in the constellation Draco, Kepler-90i – like Earth – is also the third rock from its sun - though it sits much closer, circling its star every 14.4 days.

12 Mar 2017

Transiting exoplanets cause their ultra-cool host – TRAPPIST-1 – to change its brightness!

Kepler has managed to detect a change in brightness when a planet passes in front of a star from the vantage point of the telescope.

13 Oct 2016

Discovered – Astronomers find 24 new isolated 'Hot Earth' exoplanets!

Hot Earths are Earth-sized exoplanets that exist close to their stars, making them unlikely to support life.

19 Jul 2016

More than 100 exoplanets confirmed during NASA's Kepler K2 mission!

A planetary system comprising four promising planets that could be rocky have also been confirmed.

10 May 2016

Wow! NASA’s Kepler mission makes big announcement; verifies 1,284 planets!

Whether it is a new planet, a number of stars – even exploding ones – or a circumbinary planet, Kepler has never failed to disappoint the curious minds of space enthusiasts.

14 Apr 2016

NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovers new 'hot Jupiter'

The astronomers also used three different ground-based spectrographs to conduct high-resolution spectroscopic observations of K2-29b, in order to definitely verify it as a "hot Jupiter."

11 Apr 2016

Astronomers discover stripped Hot Super-Earths!

Researchers used asteroseismology to study the internal properties of these planets and their stars to a level that are unseen before.

21 Feb 2016

Earth is special, indeed

The team discovered that if you bring the model forward 13.8 billion, none of the known 700 quintillion possible planets look like Earth.

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