18 October 2019
Companies unite to reject SpaceX satellite plans
...existing regulatory framework, and the fair use of space,” Kepler’s letter adds. Satellite operator SES are not to happy ...orbital debris and radio frequency interference issues highlighted by Kepler, because state OneWeb, “SpaceX has already failed to...
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...
01 May 2019
Evidence for first confirmed exomoon under question
... the exomoon has now been put into question. Named Kepler-1625b-i, the exomoon candidate was brought to the forefront ... (TTVs) and an apparent drop in stellar brightness after Kepler-1625b transited its host star. Transit-timing variation is pretty...
03 August 2018
Plate tectonics not needed for life, but UV light is
... powerful solar flares to jolt the chemistry forward step by step. Presently, several planets detected by the Kepler telescope, including Kepler 452b, a planet that has been nicknamed Earth's 'cousin', reside in a zone favourable to these conditions...
17 June 2020
Six billion Earth-like planets could be in our galaxy, new study says
...started by simulating the full population of exoplanets around the stars Kepler searched," she explained. "I marked each planet as 'detected'... archival data from 200,000 stars of NASA's Kepler mission. She discovered 17 new planets outside of the...
11 September 2017
Are we being watched from afar?
... plane of Earth's orbit and other terrestrial planets continues with missions such as the ongoing K2 mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft.
