A University of Washington astronomer has discovered perhaps the most Earth-like planet yet found outside the solar system by the Kepler Space Telescope. Eric Agol, a UW associate professor of ...
Today, NASA announced a new milestone in Kepler's survey of the heavens -- the confirmation of Kepler 62e and 62f as existing planets within the habitable zone of their parent star, Kepler 62. These ...
The Kepler Space Telescope has found over 1,000 confirmed exoplanets. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Kepler is a planet-hunting powerhouse. Even more impressive? Kepler is already finding ...
The search for Earthlike, habitable planets beyond the Sun has been something like a boulder rolling downhill ever since the Kepler space telescope went into orbit in 2009. Before that, ground-based ...
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the ...
William Borucki, head of NASA's Kepler project, rounded up his team yesterday and treated them to pizza and beer. The special occasion? The planet-finding spacecraft craft that Borucki and his crew ...
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In galaxies near enough to our own there could be dozens of earth-like planets. Amongst these exoplanets there exist at least two “ocean planets”. Named after the Kepler spacecraft that first spotted ...
How can identifying land on exoplanets help scientists better understand whether an exoplanet could harbor life? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as a team of researchers ...