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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This scientific visualization is much more than a dizzying dance of whirling worlds. It shows 2,299 planets ...

On Thursday (April 17), NASA announced the historic discovery of Kepler-186f, an alien planet 490 light-years from our own world that is nearly the size of Earth and located inside the habitable zone ...

Kepler is a 0.95-m-aperture space telescope using transit photometry to determine the frequency and characteristics of planets and planetary systems 1,2,3,4. The only fully validated multiple ...