Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, a team of researchers, led by astronomers at San Diego State University, detected the new Neptune-to-Saturn-size planet orbiting between two previously ...

Kepler-47 is a 3.5-billion-year-old star system about 3,340 light years away from Earth. It's one of nine systems that we know of that are "binary star systems," which means it has not one star at its ...

Meet Kepler-47d, a puffy planet that lies 3,340 light-years from Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The only known ...

This is an artistic rendition of the Kepler-47 circumbinary planet system. The three planets with the large middle planet being the newly discovered Kepler47d. Using data from NASA’s Kepler space ...

Here we report the discovery of a third planet, Kepler-47 d (the “middle planet”), which has an orbital period of 187.4 days and a radius of about 7R⊕. The presence of the middle planet allows us to ...