Kepler Mission
Bayesian Analysis Rains On Exoplanet Life Parade
It's tempting to think that life is plentiful in the Universe, if only we could locate it. But a pair…
Kepler Catches Early Flash Of An Exploding Star
The Kepler spacecraft has captured the "shock breakout" of a distant supernova, a twenty minute event that signals the end…
Largest Rocky World Found
Astrophysicists using the Kepler Spacecraft have discovered the largest rocky planet yet: BD+20594b is 16 times as massive as Earth.
Earth From Afar Would Look Only 82% Right For Life
How habitable would Earth look from a distant point in the Milky Way? As it turns out, there's only an…
Spinning Worlds: Orrery of Kepler’s Exoplanets, Part IV
The past few years, Daniel Fabrycky from the Kepler spacecraft science team has put together some terrific orrery-type visualization of…
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Radio waves absent from the reputed megastructure-encompassed Kepler star?
Astronomers at the SETI institute (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) have reported their findings after monitoring the reputed megastructure-encompassed star KIC 8462852. No…
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What’s Orbiting KIC 8462852 – Shattered Comet or Alien Megastructure?
"Bizarre." "Interesting." "Giant transit". That were the reactions of Planet Hunters project volunteers when they got their first look at the light…
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More livable than Earth? New index sizes up the habitability of alien exoplanets
Researchers at the University of Washington's Virtual Planetary Laboratory have devised a new habitability index for judging how suitable alien planets…
A Place for Alien Life? Kepler Mission Discovers Earth’s Older Cousin, Kepler-452b
Scientists say NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered Earth's "older, bigger first cousin" – a planet that's about 60 percent bigger…
Everything About Kepler-432b is Extreme, Especially the Way it’s Going to Die
Astronomers are calling Kepler-432b a ‘maverick’ planet because everything about this newly found exoplanet is an extreme, and is unlike…