Kepler Mission

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  Sun’s Magnetic Activity Is Making It Difficult to Gauge Its True Age, Study Finds

  Astronomers have traditionally relied on helioseismology to estimate the Sun's age by analysing the vibrations that ripple through its interior. However, recent research has uncovered a significant obstacle, the Sun's magnetic activity, which follows an 11-year cycle, appears to be distorting these measurements. Data from the Birmingham Solar Oscil...

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  NASA's Kepler Data Adds 301 Planets, Thanks to Machine Learning

  A new deep learning method has added a whopping 301 exoplanets to the total tally. These planets were added to the already validated 4,569 planets which are orbiting several distant stars. The additions were made with the help of a deep neural method called ExoMiner.

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  Earth-Like Exoplanet Found Orbiting a Sun-Like Star a Little Over 3,000 Light Years Away: Study

  Planet KOI-456.04' is thought to be similar to Earth for several reasons. It is said to have a similar distance between its sun - Kepler-160 - with an orbit that takes it 378 days to complete. It also thought to receive 93 percent as much light as Earth gets from the Sun.

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  So Long, Kepler, and Thanks for All the Planets

  In nine years in orbit, Kepler has confirmed the existence of 2,681 exoplanets by tracking the shadows they cast as they pass in front of their stars.

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  NASA Bids Goodbye To Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope

  NASA has decided to retire its Kepler space telescope that discovered more than 2,600 planets and ran out of fuel needed for further science operations.

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  NASA Retires Its Planet Hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope

  Currently orbiting the sun 156 million kilometres km from Earth, the Kepler telescope will drift further from our planet when mission engineers turn off its radio transmitters.

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  NASA's Kepler Discovers Nearly 100 New Exoplanets

  Adding the newly discovered exoplanets brings the total number of exoplanets by K2 mission to almost 300.

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  NASA's Kepler Telescope Discovers 10 New Earth-Sized Exoplanets

  The Kepler mission team released a survey of 219 potential exoplanets that had been detected by the space observatory launched in 2009 to scan the Milky Way galaxy.

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  NASA Probe Provides More Information About TRAPPIST-1

  NASA's Kepler mission has provided more information about the recently discovered ultra-cool dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1, that hosts seven potentially habitable Earth-size planets 40 light-years away.

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  Nasa's Kepler Probe Discovers Over 100 Exoplanets During K2 Mission

  Among the findings tallying 197 initial planet candidates, scientists have confirmed 104 planets outside our solar system.

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  NASA's Kepler Discovers More Than 104 New Exoplanets

  An international team of researchers announced on Monday the discovery of 104 new planets outside our solar system, including four that could have Earth-like, rocky surfaces.

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  NASA Keppler Mission Discovers Infant Exoplanet Around Young Star

  Using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and its extended K2 mission, astronomers have discovered a new-born fully-formed exoplanet -- planets that orbit stars beyond our Sun -- ever detected around a young star.

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  Astronomers Discover Largest Planet Orbiting 2 Suns

  Astronomers using the US Kepler Space Telescope said on Monday they have found the largest planet yet discovered that orbits a pair of binary stars.

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  NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Probe Goes Into Emergency Mode

  In a bad news for astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life in deep space, NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler has gone into an emergency mode 75 million miles from the Earth.

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  Nasa's Kepler Mission Finds 100 New Exoplanets

  Many of the newly-found planets are in multi-planet systems and orbit stars that are brighter and hotter than the stars in the original Kepler field.