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A New Way to Measure the Age of the Milky Way
Using data collected by Kepler's K2 observation campaign, an international team of scientists was able to more accurately predict the…
A New Extrasolar Planet Has The Composition of Mercury, but 2.5 Times the Mass of Earth
A team of international astronomers recently discovered a Super Earth with a similar composition of Mercury, and is several times…
A New Planetary System Has Been Found with Three Super Earths
A team of astronomers recently discovered a system of three exoplanets that are just 100 light years from Earth, making…
NASA Announces 10, That’s Right 10! New Planets in Their Star’s Habitable Zone
The latest catalog to be released by the Kepler mission features and additional 10 potentially-habitable planets, and has led to…
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…
Kepler Space Telescope Gets A New Exoplanet-Hunting Mission
After several months with their telescope on the sidelines, the Kepler space telescope team has happy news to report: the…