Kepler

Weekly Space Hangout – July 26, 2013

It's time for another Weekly Space Hangout, where a dedicated team of space journalists run down all the big stories…

11 years ago

The Hunt for Exomoons Begins!

The latest exciting undertaking in exoplanet research is the search for exomoons. A team led by Dr. David Kipping at…

11 years ago

Discovery! More Planets Found Orbiting In A Star Cluster

As Earthlings, we're so used to thinking about planets being in simple orbits around a single star. But the Sun…

11 years ago

Flying Space Toasters: Electrified Exoplanets Really Feel the Heat

Overheated and overinflated, hot Jupiters are some of the strangest extrasolar planets to be discovered by the Kepler mission... and…

11 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

Earthlike Exoplanets Are All Around Us

Artist's impression of a rocky planet orbiting a red dwarf. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA) We may literally be surrounded by…

12 years ago

Kepler Spacecraft Back in Action After Reaction Wheel Problem

There has been some concern about the Kepler spacecraft after one of the devices that provide the ability for super-precise…

12 years ago

A Moon With Two Suns: Making Art from Science

A view of Kepler 47c and binary stars. ©Digital Drew. All rights reserved. What would it look like on a…

12 years ago