Kepler’s mission was to see how many planets it could find orbiting some ... position to block the light of the next star on its list of targets. Though the dancers will be tens of thousands ...

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Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

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It was Johann Kepler, almost exactly 400 years ago, who declared that each planet speeds up as it approaches the Sun in its elliptical orbit, but travels more and more slowly as it heads away. So ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

and plenty of software solutions have been developed in the six years since the end of Kepler's primary mission to help facilitate crunching large sets of data to look for planets around other stars.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.