Kepler space telescope

This artist rendering shows what the sub-Neptunian exoplanet TOI-421 b might look like. In a new study, scientists have found new evidence of how planets of this type can lose their atmosphere. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and D. Player (STScI)

Cosmic Disappearance: NASA Solves the Mystery of Shrinking Planets

Researchers have found that certain planets outside the solar system are shrinking due to the loss of their atmosphere
The intensity of the light reaching us from a distant planet raises questions and even wild speculations: is it surrounded by alien technology? A simulation of the "Dyson count", which some explain as a possible solution to the mystery. Source: Vedexent / Wikimedia.

Did aliens build giant structures around a distant sun?

Simulation of a moon around an extrasolar planet. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Was a moon discovered outside the solar system for the first time?

The number of planet candidates discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope Credit: NASA/SETI/J Rowe

Kepler's New Life / Clara Moskovitch

An artist's illustration of the Kepler space telescope designed to locate planets outside the solar system. Image: NASA

The next incarnation of the Kepler space telescope / Clara Moskowitz

An imaginary system of planets outside the solar system. Illustration: shutterstock

Approaching a thousand planets outside the solar system

An artist's illustration of the Kepler space telescope designed to locate planets outside the solar system. Image: NASA

Efforts to repair the Kepler telescope have failed

A visualization of the planet "Kepler 62f", against the background of the sunrise of the mother star, "Kepler 62", the bright star to the right is the neighboring planet, 62e. Drawing: NASA

Swim on distant planets

Illustration of the system. In the center of the figure one of the planets and in the distance you see the double sun and the other planet.

For the first time, two new planets orbiting a double sun have been discovered

Transit of a planet in front of its sun. Illustration from a NASA video

Kepler's new crop: 11 new solar systems with 26 planets

A planet orbiting a double sun for illustration Courtesy: Lynette Cook, Lior Taylor, Mark Garlick of the University of San Diego.

Two planets each orbit two suns

"The Third Day" movie poster Flying saucer over the White House - only in movies.

Search for ET - no evidence yet

Kepler-16: A planet orbiting two suns. Image: NASA

One planet, two suns

The Sun Kepler 11 and the planets around it. Image: NASA

Kepler first discovered candidates for rocky planets in the habitable zone

Avatar's moon - Pandora - could exist in reality say planet hunters

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Atmospheres of super earth globes

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

In the neighborhood it's vandalism, in space it's a gesture.

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The Next Thing in Astronomy - Part III - Signals from a Distant World