October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
...this tantalising world was by no means an overnight success. The Kepler mission has been a labour of love, and a fight against the ..., I’ve cheered from the sidelines for most of the Kepler mission’s major press announcements. My role for the last 20...
17 June 2020
Six billion Earth-like planets could be in our galaxy, new study says
... the radius gap's characteristics. Previously, Kunimoto searched archival data from 200,000 stars of NASA's Kepler mission. She discovered 17 new planets outside of the Solar System, or exoplanets, in addition to recovering thousands of already known...
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...
16 April 2021
Five double star systems potentially suitable for life identified by researchers
..., should no longer be discounted. "Our best candidate for hosting a world that is potentially habitable is the binary system Kepler-38, approximately 3970 light years from Earth, and known to contain a Neptune-sized planet," says Georgakarakos. "Our...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
... will get into its designated orbit around 12 June, he added. TESS builds on the success of similar missions such as Kepler, but whereas Kepler was limited to a field of view that covered 115 square degrees, or around 0.25 percent of the sky...
