NASA to announce Kepler discovery this Thursday
by tte-77 Kepler - searching for Earth-like planets - Credit: NASA So HARPS releases news about 50 new exoplanets this week and soon after comes this! NASA will announce a new discovery by its Kepler...
View ArticleNASA’s Kepler confirms first planet orbiting two stars
by tte-77 Just like "Star Wars" Tatooine newly discovered Kepler-16b is a world where two suns set over the horizon - Credit: NASA TV Exciting news from the Kepler mission announced at 1800 UTC/GMT + 1...
View Article“Earth-like” planet Kepler 22b identified
by yaska77 Astronomers have identified an Earth-like planet in the “habitable zone” around a star similar to our own Sun. Called Kepler 22b it lies 600 light-years away and is 2.4 times the size of...
View ArticleFirst Earth-size planets beyond our Solar System identified
by yaska77 NASA’s Kepler mission has indentified the first Earth-size planets orbiting a star similar to our own sun. Called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, the planets aren’t in the recognised “goldilocks”...
View ArticleIdeal SETI-target planets and K-type stars
by tte-77 The Kepler-62 system – home to two habitable zone worlds. The small shining object to the right of Kepler-62f is Kepler-62e. Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech. Its been far too long since I...
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