Kepler Mission

First Earth-Sized Exoplanets Found by Kepler

[/caption] December 2011 will go down in history as the first time humanity was able to detect an Earth-sized planet…

12 years ago

[/caption] Scientists from the Kepler mission announced this morning the first confirmed exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a Sun-like…

12 years ago

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[/caption] Are you ready to add another planet to the growing list of discoveries? Thanks to work done by Steve…

12 years ago

[/caption] Some potentially good news for exoplanet fans, and Kepler fans in particular - Kepler scientists are asking for a…

13 years ago

[/caption] What has a super-Earth and two Neptune-like planets? This tempting dessert belongs to the latest Kepler discovery found orbiting…

13 years ago

[/caption] NASA announced that it has added the Delta II rocket, a launch vehicle that appeared to be slipping into…

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[/caption] Once again news from the Kepler mission is making the rounds, this time with a research paper outlining a…

13 years ago

[/caption] In a news conference today, Kepler mission scientists announced the first confirmed circumbinary planet ( a planet that orbits…

13 years ago

[/caption] There’s a planet out there playing a game of ‘doorbell ditch’ with astronomers. Scientists can’t see this distant world,…

13 years ago

[/caption] Earlier this month astronomers released news of the darkest exoplanet ever seen: discovered in 2006, the gas giant TrES-2b…

13 years ago