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Friday, Mar 6
Daily podcast: Data investigation
Tomorrow in Florida, Nasa launches the Kepler probe - a new mission to find planets similar to Earth. Our science correspondent, Ian Sample, says its the most extensive such search yet.
Thursday, Mar 5
Kepler: The ultimate search for intelligent life in space begins
Mission scientists will use Kepler's 95 megapixel digital camera to survey the brightness of 100,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra every half an hour. Planets will reveal themselves as almost imperceptible reductions in brightness as they move across the faces of thei...
Sunday, Feb 15
Earth-like planet will be found 'soon'
The US space agency, Nasa, is due to launch a space telescope, called Kepler, dedicated to searching for planets that are similar to, or smaller than Earth. It will join the European Space Agency's Corot telescope, which spotted a large "super Earth" earlier this month.
