Kepler has been performing well and has been making science observations since recovery from safe mode on Jan. 27, 2013. Last…
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System (Source NASA) - The Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system…
A New Approach to Search for Earth-like Worlds The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) is now searching for Earth-like worlds. The…
(Source - NASA) Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)…
The number of potentially habitable exoplanets will be impacted A team of astronomers from Penn State led by Ravi Kumar…
The Kepler spacecraft, NASA's lead planet finder has returned to operations and is once again planet hunting. After a "wheel…
The Kepler observatory has stopped it's science data operations due to concern about a second reaction wheel issue. Reaction wheels…
This figure shows an actual image of a sunset on Earth compared to artistic representations for the best candidates of…
Water is not a luxury of Earth, in fact, it is the most abundant compound in the universe because it…
(Source NASA) - Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second…