Kepler's final image

On October 30th, 2018, after nine years of faithful service, the Kepler Space Telescope was officially retired. With nearly 4000 candidates and 2,662 confirmed exoplanets to its credit, no other ...

Massive star may be the reason Earth isn't a waterworld

The Earth as a habitable planet may be rarer than we thought. Scientists have used computer models to show that the reason our planet and has a moderate climate and isn't an ocean world ...

This is the last image the planet-hunting Kepler telescope ever took

From supergiant to solar-mass star: Study finds HD 179821 less massive than previously thought

A post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) star known as HD 179821 turns out to be significantly less massive than previously thought, according to a new study. Using new data from ESA's Gaia ...

Cosmic pile-up gives glimpse of how planets are made

Astronomers say they have the first evidence of a collision between two planets in a distant solar system.

Giant impacts caused by interplanetary collisions

Astronomers have found fresh evidence for significant planetary diversity within a single exoplanet system, suggesting that giant high-speed collisions are partly responsible for planetary evolution.

A space rock collision may explain how this exoplanet was born

Simulations suggest a planet roughly 2,000 light-years away formed when two space rocks collided, supporting the idea that such events are universal.

Demolition derby: Planet crashes explain different densities

Research sheds light on the violence of exoplanet formation. Lauren Fuge reports.

It's an exciting find given the planet is only six light-years away from Earth, making it one of closest worlds outside of our solar system.

Credit: Getty Images: Ron Miller/Stocktrek ImagesPrimitive life might exist on a large, rocky planet that is relatively nearby Earth, according to a team of scientists who presented ...

Kepler beams back final image from its almost decade-long journey

NASA bid a bittersweet farewell to its Kepler spacecraft in October. During its nine-and-a-half year journey, the space telescope spotted more than 2,600 planets outside of our solar ...

NASA releases the “last light” image taken by Kepler before it retired last year

NASA has released the final view taken by Kepler in September, shortly before the space telescope was retired after nearly a decade of unprecedented discoveries about the universe beyond our ...

Here's the magnificent last view NASA's Kepler Space Telescope ever saw - CNET

The prolific planet finder went to sleep for good last year, but captured one final view before saying goodnight.

Kepler's swansong: Final ever image taken by NASA's ground-breaking telescope revealed

Kepler's mission was originally earmarked to last 3.5 years was operational for 9 years, 7 months and 23 days. Its first image was received by scientists at the Ames Research Center in California ...

Last Light: Here's the Final View from NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope

The Kepler Space Telescope found thousands of planets around other stars by documenting their telltale flickers before it ran out of fuel last fall — and a newly released image shows the spacecraft's ...

Inside-out dense iron planets probably the result of massive collision

Unusual planet compositions might point to a world-shattering origin.

When Worlds Collide: Scientists Spot Hint of a Giant Crash in Alien Solar System

Scientists peering at an alien solar system have spotted a pair of planets so different that their traits may be evidence of a massive collision.

Cosmic crash between two planets created a distant 'super Earth'

The new discovery was made by an international team of astronomers in the Canary Islands observing a star system with four planets more than 1,600 light years away.

Galactic Collision Created Kepler Exoplanets

ArticleKepler-107 is in the constellation Cygnus and four of its exoplanets may hold the possibility of hosting life. According to new models, two of those planets were created through a massive ...

First-ever exoplanet collision observed in Kepler 107 system

Scientists have for the first time discovered evidence of a planetary collision outside the solar system.

Exoplanet imaginarium

Imagine the alien worlds ESA will investigate with its three generations of exoplanet missions

Massive collision in the planetary system Kepler 107

La Laguna, Spain (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 Since, in 1995 the first extrasolar planet was discovered almost 4,000 planets have been found around the nearest stars. This allows us to study a large ...