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Kepler out of Safe Mode, Observatory performing well

Kepler has been performing well and has been making science observations since recovery from safe mode on Jan. 27, 2013. Last…

12 years ago

Kepler finds Moon sized planet

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System (Source NASA) - The Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system…

12 years ago

Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) new search for Earths

A New Approach to Search for Earth-like Worlds The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) is now searching for Earth-like worlds. The…

12 years ago

Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door

(Source - NASA) Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)…

12 years ago

New definition may decrease the number of potential habitable planets

The number of potentially habitable exoplanets will be impacted A team of astronomers from Penn State led by Ravi Kumar…

12 years ago

Kepler out of Safe mode, back in science collection

The Kepler spacecraft, NASA's lead planet finder has returned to operations and is once again planet hunting. After a "wheel…

12 years ago

NASA’s Kepler observatory enters a modified Safe Mode

The Kepler observatory has stopped it's science data operations due to concern about a second reaction wheel issue. Reaction wheels…

12 years ago

What do sunsets look like on other planets?

This figure shows an actual image of a sunset on Earth compared to artistic representations for the best candidates of…

12 years ago

Water Water Everywhere…in our solar system.

Water is not a luxury of Earth, in fact, it is the most abundant compound in the universe because it…

12 years ago

Vega – Two Asteroid Belts and the Possibility of Planets

(Source NASA) - Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second…

12 years ago