Kepler Mission
What a View! Exoplanet Odd Couple Orbit in Close Proximity
Imagine if the Neptune was only a million miles from Earth. What a view we’d have! … not to mention…
Terrestrial Planets Could be More Common Than Gas Giants
Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Andy Tomaswick, an electrical engineer who follows space science and technology. As…
Kepler Mission Extended to 2016
[/caption] With NASA’s tight budget, there were concerns that some of the agency’s most successful astrophysics missions might not be…
Excellent Exoplanet Visualization: The Kepler Orrery II
About a year ago, Daniel Fabrycky from the Kepler spacecraft science team put together a terrific orrery-type visualization of all…
11 New Planetary Systems… 26 New Planets… Kepler Racks ‘Em Up!
[/caption] Eleven ball in the side pocket. Whack! And another 26 planets are discovered! NASA just announced the latest tally…
British TV Audience Discovers Potential New Planet
[/caption] A public “mass participation” push initiated on a UK television program to find planets beyond our Solar System has…
Tatooine the Sequel: Kepler Finds Two More Exoplanets Orbiting Binary Stars
[/caption] For exoplanet fans, this week has been an exciting one, with some amazing new discoveries being announced at the American…
Scientists Find Trio of Tiny Exoplanets
[/caption] NASA’s Kepler mission has detected no shortage of planets; more than a thousand candidates were discovered in 2011, a…
Exomoons? <em>Kepler</em>‘s On The Hunt
[/caption] Recently, I posted an article on the feasibility of detecting moons around extrasolar planets. It was determined that exceptionally…
Analysis of the First Kepler SETI Observations
[/caption] As the Kepler space telescope begins finding its first Earth-sized exoplanets, with the ultimate goal of finding ones that…