Kepler Mission
Kepler Planet-Hunting Mission in Jeopardy
NASA's Kepler telescope has lost its ability to precisely point toward stars, putting its exoplanet search in jeopardy. One of…
Using the Theory of Relativity and BEER to Find Exoplanets
A new method of detecting alien worlds is full of awesome, as it combines Einstein’s Theory of Relativity along with…
How Do You Measure A Planet Near A Tiny Star?
When you sit back and think about how far away exoplanets are -- and how faint -- it's a scientific…
Habitable Worlds? New Kepler Planetary Systems in Images
The Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range…
Kepler Team Finds System with Two Potentially Habitable Planets
This might be the most exciting exoplanet news yet. An international team of scientists analyzing data from NASA's Kepler mission…
New Exoplanet-Hunting Mission to launch in 2017
Move over Kepler. NASA has recently green-lighted two new missions as part of its Astrophysics Explorer Program. These come as…
Kepler Team Identifies Planet Impostors that are Binary Stars in Disguise
Observations by the Kepler satellite have advanced our knowledge of stars and their orbiting planets, yielding more than 100 confirmed…
Could There be 100 Billion Potentially Habitable Planets in the Galaxy?
As we’ve reported recently, the likelihood of findings habitable Earth-sized worlds just seems to keep getting better and better. But…
Kepler’s Weirdest Exoplanets
Captain Kirk has nothing on the "strange new worlds" the Kepler space telescope has found. NASA's planet-probing orbiting observatory launched…
Smallest Exoplanet Yet Discovered by ‘Listening’ to a Sun-like Star
Scientists have discovered a new planet orbiting a Sun-like star, and the exoplanet is the smallest yet found in data…