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." ...

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 ...

"This new problem Kepler created is that we now have thousands of ... in the galaxy from which the signal originated to determine the chances that a planet with the characteristics being analyzed ...

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 ...

The research team set out to study Kepler-51d, the third planet ... and amount of that decrease gives clues to the planet's size and other characteristics. Planets transit when they complete ...