May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
... maximum chance of finding planets, are only possible from space. Kepler stared for four years at the same patch of sky, while K2, an ingenious extension of the Kepler mission using the radiation pressure from the Sun to stabilise the...
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...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... sky surveys that generally focus on planets that NASA’s Kepler mission has identified as Earth-like. Currently, the team ...“We know the star formation rate is around seven per year from Kepler,” he said. “We know the fraction of stars with planets, is...
