19 November 2018
Kepler officially retires after receiving final "goodnight" commands
... not without the occasional technical blip however; four years into the mission after the primary mission objectives had been met, two of Kepler's four gyroscope-like reaction wheels, which are used to precisely point the...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
... title – K2 – and 15 months after being reassigned to its new stellar target, Kepler had racked up its 1,000th confirmed exoplanet discovery. Kepler’s K2 mission comprised of 19 ‘campaigns,’ lasting around 80 days each. These new discoveries were all...
24 November 2021
Astronomers discover more than 350 possible new exoplanets
...automatically sift through data collected by NASA’s Kepler mission, scientists at UCLA have identified 366 new...dwarf stars instead. Dubbed K2, this “Second Light" mission lasted as long as Kepler’s first exoplanet hunt and bumped its count of surveyed...
11 September 2017
Are we being watched from afar?
... habitable exoplanets in regions centred close to the plane of Earth's orbit and other terrestrial planets continues with missions such as the ongoing K2 mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft.
14 December 2017
AI detects eighth planet orbiting distant sun
... that is reminiscent of TRAPPIST-1 set of planets. “These results demonstrate the enduring value of Kepler’s mission,” said Jessie Dotson, Kepler’s project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. “New ways of looking...
10 April 2017
Super-Jupiter mass planet found in the galactic bulge
.... All telescopes were observing the event as part of the “Campaign 9” of the Kepler 2 mission, also known as the K2C9 program, which involves the recovered Kepler space telescope working in conjunction with ground-based observatories to find possible...
