Kepler Mission Data Reveal First Non-Transiting Planet Candidates

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON — Researchers using observations gathered by NASA’s Kepler Telescope claim the first discovery of a non-transiting exoplanet, revealed through gravitational perturbations called transit timing variations, or TTVs. The TTV technique, first proposed as a strategy for finding Earth-like...

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