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The planet boom: The science team for NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission is due to unveil its first results next month, and the announcements are likely ... and more »
The most advanced planet-hunting probes — the European Space Agency's COROT satellite and NASA's Kepler spacecraft — are designed to spot close-in planets ...
The trend in telescopes is to send up spacecraft that have been optimized for specific tasks rather than general observing. For example, NASA's Kepler probe, which had its scientific coming-out party today, is a telescope expressly designed to look for ...
The Kepler telescope lifted off on March 6 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., heading to the stars. Its mission is to scour a section of the sky to find planets like Earth that might be able to sustain life. NASA officials said the goal is to look for orbiting ... The Kepler Spacecraft Statesman