Kepler
What If All of Kepler’s Exoplanets Orbited the Same Star?
That's exactly the scenario shown by a mesmerizing animation called "Worlds" by Alex Parker -- a single system containing 2299…
British TV Audience Discovers Potential New Planet
[/caption] A public “mass participation” push initiated on a UK television program to find planets beyond our Solar System has…
Tatooine the Sequel: Kepler Finds Two More Exoplanets Orbiting Binary Stars
[/caption] For exoplanet fans, this week has been an exciting one, with some amazing new discoveries being announced at the American…
Analysis of the First Kepler SETI Observations
[/caption] As the Kepler space telescope begins finding its first Earth-sized exoplanets, with the ultimate goal of finding ones that…
Kepler Confirms First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star
[/caption] Scientists from the Kepler mission announced this morning the first confirmed exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a Sun-like…
How Common are Terrestrial, Habitable Planets Around Sun-Like Stars?
[/caption] Once again news from the Kepler mission is making the rounds, this time with a research paper outlining a…
Shedding Some Light on a Dark Discovery
[/caption] Earlier this month astronomers released news of the darkest exoplanet ever seen: discovered in 2006, the gas giant TrES-2b…
Astronomers Discover a Dark Alien World
[/caption] An exoplanet has been discovered by astronomers that reflects less than one percent of the light it receives from…
Multi-Planet Systems Common in Kepler Findings
[/caption] Of the 1235 planetary candidates that NASA's Kepler space telescope has found so far, 408 reside in multiple-planet…
Kepler Team Announces New Rocky Planet
[/caption] Today at the American Astronomical Society conference in Boston, the Kepler team announced the confirmation of a new…