Kepler has been performing well and has been making science observations since recovery from safe mode on Jan. 27, 2013. Last…
Category: Search for Life
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
