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...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
.... In Galileo’s time there was another controversy: whether light had a speed at all. Many fine minds, like Kepler, though that light simply travelled instantaneously. Galileo suggested placing lanterns on distant hilltops to time light’s passage...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... This artist’s concept shows the newly discovered exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting in the habitable zone of its host...the closest to Earth in size and temperature found yet in Kepler’s data. Future telescopes The effectiveness of a telescope at ...
09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
... published last year, whereby scientists constrained the mass for Kepler-93b, a planet that orbits around its host star ... 5 days. By calculating its mass – approximately four Earth masses – Kepler-93b is now added to the list of a dozen or so small...
20 June 2016
Trio of hot Jupiters give clue to their formation
...sizeable proportion of the 2300+ exoplanets detected so far with Kepler belong to this class of planet. However, despite being ...either with RV surveys or by transits. Compared with Kepler statistics, which predicts that around 0.4 percent of stars...
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...
