New 'hot Jupiter' discovered by Kepler's K2 mission

(Phys.org)--Despite losing its two reaction wheels, NASA's Kepler spacecraft hasn't stopped amazing the scientific community by detecting new alien worlds. The repurposed Kepler mission, called K2, has recently discovered another new so-called "hot Jupiter" exoplanet, demonstrating once again that it is the most prolific planet-hunting telescope to date. The findings were published on April 10 on arXiv.org.