Kepler Mission
Oldest Planetary System Discovered, Improving the Chances for Intelligent Life Everywhere
Using data from the Kepler space telescope, an international group of astronomers has discovered the oldest known planetary system in…
Gallery: Some Of Kepler’s Strange New Worlds Outside The Solar System
With the latest Kepler space telescope exoplanet finding announced yesterday, the mighty planet hunter has now found 1,000 confirmed worlds…
New Finds From Kepler: 8 New Worlds Discovered in the Habitable Zone
A fascinating set of finds was announced today at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), currently underway…
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Universe Today’s Top 10 Space Stories of 2014
It seems a lot of the space stories of this year involve spacecraft making journeys: bouncing across a comet, or…
Kepler ‘K2’ Finds First Exoplanet, A ‘Super-Earth’, While Surfing Sun’s Pressure Wave For Control
It's alive! NASA's Kepler space telescope had to stop planet-hunting during Earth's northern-hemisphere summer 2013 when a second of its…
Alien Planet’s Clear Weather Could Show Way To ‘Super-Earth’ Atmospheres
In an encouraging find for habitability researchers, astronomers have detected molecules on the smallest planet ever -- a Neptune-sized planet…
‘Venus Zone’: The Anti-Habitable Area Around A Star That Can Breed Hell
Our hothouse planet of the solar system, Venus, is possibly a product of how close it is to the Sun,…
Threatened Spitzer Telescope Gets NASA Nod For Extension, Subject To Congress Funding
After NASA recommended in May that Spitzer space telescope officials send in a revised budget or face possible termination of…
‘Mega-Earth’ And Doomed Planets Top Today’s Exoplanet Finds
Can you imagine a world that is 17 times as massive as Earth, but still rocky? Or two planets that…
Kepler Has Found the First Earth-Sized Exoplanet in a Habitable Zone!
It's truly a "eureka" moment for Kepler scientists: the first rocky Earth-sized world has been found in a star's habitable…