Showing posts with label Kepler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kepler. Show all posts
Monday, June 6

Patience Pays Off: Student Discovers Planets

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Michelle Kunimoto, a student at the University of British Columbia, recently discovered four new exoplanets  about 3,200 light years away ...
Wednesday, May 11

Exoplanets: The Count Increases

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NASA announced this week that scientists analyzing 2015 data from the refurbished Kepler space telescope, now called K2, has discovered a...
Sunday, January 31

Is Mars a Backup Planet?

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With all the excitement about a someday trip to Mars, some are voicing caution that we should not be so eager to leave Earth behind.  As...
Sunday, December 21

Kepler is Back!

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It's great to see NASA has put the Kepler spacecraft back in action after a hiatus and some retooling .  Under its  second phase, call...
Sunday, April 27

Kepler-186f: Finding the Needle in a Haystack of Data

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The recent announcement that Kepler located an Earth-like planet 500 light years away was the product of detailed research on a trove of d...
Monday, March 3

More Earth-Like Planets Located

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If you are looking for a little bit of bedtime reading, you could do worse than this 138 page paper from NASA titled "Validation of ...
Saturday, February 8

More on Kepler from the 2013 Kepler Science Conference II

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After discussing Kepler in my recent post , I wanted to learn more about the status of the Kepler mission.  You can find numerous papers f...
Wednesday, January 1

Top Astronomy Stories in 2013

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This is the time of year to highlight some of the great discoveries of the last year, and we have plenty to ponder.  CBS news highlights...