Space.com on MSN3 天
Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes than smaller worlds.
Astrum on MSN18 天
Has NASA's Kepler discovered any exoplanets that may harbour life?
The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable? Could there really ...
Mashable4 年
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is dead. Long live Kepler.
All good things must come to an end, on Earth and even in space. NASA announced on Tuesday that the Kepler mission — which has transformed how we understand planets outside of our solar system ...
Strangest worlds ever discovered in the universe – from stinky planet that rains glass ...
IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...
NASASpaceFlight.com6 年
Kepler – NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft – retired after…
As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and ...
University of Manchester1 年
NASA’s Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the grave
The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...
Mashable8 年
1,284 alien planets confirmed in new study of NASA Kepler data
NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...
DLR11 个月
Kepler - 3rd generation satellite navigation
With Kepler, the Institute of Communications and Navigation has presented a system proposal for a 3rd generation satellite navigation system - with unprecedented accuracy and reliability. It should ...
BGR7 年
NASA just discovered nearly 100 new alien planets as the search for life heats up
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the purpose of finding new objects ...
The Sun14 天
Strangest worlds ever discovered in the universe – from stinky planet that rains glass ...
"It’s death by a thousand cuts." Nasa's eagle-eyed Kepler Space Telescope spotted TrES-2b - the darkest known exoplanet - in 2011. It reflects less than 1% of any light that hits it, allowing it ...
Total lunar eclipse: As the Moon goes dark, can these 2 solar-powered probes survive?
During a lunar eclipse, NASA’s LRO and Firefly’s Blue Ghost fight to survive hours of freezing darkness. With failing ...