Based on its characteristics ... as part of a batch of 461 new planet candidates found by Kepler. Kepler finds potential planets by looking for periodic dips in the brightness of stars caused ...

NASA scientists say the Kepler space telescope may have ... could well have similar characteristics to our planet. So, let's do a thought experiment for our audience, if you will.

Learning the characteristics and personalities ... is searching for planets using the same detection technique that Kepler used. TESS’ orbit, rather than being around the Sun, has a close ...

NASA’s legendary Kepler space telescope ... researchers can tease out characteristics of the planet such as size and orbital distance. “When we started conceiving this mission 35 years ...

The Kepler telescope, which was designed to search for planets like those found in ... will enable astronomers to learn more about their characteristics." ...

“We have no planet like this in our solar system,” he said. Is life restricted to Earth, or could it exist somewhere like Kepler 22-b? It may be that the characteristics of Earth, with its ...

Given Kepler’s success rate ... closely at for their possible Earth-like characteristics. Scientists believe there may also be a sixth Earth-like planet lolling around Kepler 11 at a distance ...

The inner planet, Kepler-385 b, has a mass around 12.8 ... exoplanet catalog update can allow scientists to determine the characteristics of worlds outside the solar system. By using improved ...

Exoplanet Kepler-1568b has less than 3 million years left, say scientists. “We’ve had theorists predict the fates of stars and their planets for decades, but we’ve never before had observations to ...

Thus, unlike Kepler’s first and second laws that describe the motion characteristics of a single planet, the astronomer’s third law compares the motion of different planets and calculates the ...