Space Science nasa exoplanets A solar system with seven planets was discovered in Kepler mission data Multiple extremely hot super-Earths By Daniel Sims November 8, 2023, 7:44 AM ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft, patiently measuring the light of distant suns to find the tell-tale dimming caused by the passage of unseen planets, has discovered a solar system 210 light years from ...

In 2014, the Kepler space telescope began a new extended mission called K2, which continues the hunt for planets outside our solar system along with its other cosmic tasks.

The solar system where the new planet was discovered isn't new. "We already knew that Kepler-90 hosted seven planets," Vanderburg said during the press conference.

The discovery marks the first solar system to tie with our solar system in the number of planets orbiting one star. "The Kepler-90 star system is like a mini version of our solar system.

Bad Astronomy Kepler finds a mini solar system! By Phil Plait Feb 02, 201111:07 AM ...

This newly discovered system is called Kepler-36, and it's about 1,200 light years away. One of its planets is a rocky super-Earth about 1.5 times the size of our planet and 4.5 times the mass.

All of the planets except for 90i were previously known. That tied the Kepler-90 system with the seven-planet Trappist-1 system for the honor of most populous known exoplanet solar system.

When NASA scientists began planning the Kepler mission, humans didn’t know of a single planet outside of our solar system. But by the time the roving space telescope retired, on October 30, it ...

Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered a tiny solar system consisting of a single red dwarf star, known as KOI-961 and three planets which are 0.78, 0.73 and 0.57 times ...

NASA announced finding an Earth-like planet outside outside the solar system that could have have the right temperature to support life. As Brian Vastag reported: The search for Earth-like planets ...