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Thursday, May 28
Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds: Jupiter-like Planet Found Orbiting ... - Science Daily
NASA's space-based Kepler mission, which began searching for planets on May 12, will use the transit method to look for Earth-like worlds around stars similar to the sun. "This is an exciting discovery because it shows that planets can be found around ...
Friday, May 15
Let The Planet Hunt Begin: Kepler Spacecraft Begins Search For Other Earth-like Worlds
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more than 100,000 stars for telltale signs of planets. Kepler has the unique ability to find...
Monday, Apr 27
Missing Planets Attest To Destructive Power Of Stars' Tides - Science Daily
NASA, which funded the research, recently launched the Kepler telescope, which is designed specifically to look for extrasolar planets that are closer in size to Earth. Jackson hopes new observations will provide new lines of evidence to investigate ...
Sunday, Apr 19
New Effort To Discover Habitable Earth-like Planets Around Other Stars - Science Daily
By measuring the wobble of their parent stars, HARPS-NEF will use this technique to discover and characterise Earth-like planets from candidates identified by NASA's Kepler mission, launched on 6th March this year. It will incorporate several ...
Thursday, Apr 9
Dust Cover Jettisoned From NASA's Kepler Telescope - Science Daily
Now the photometer can see the stars and will soon start the task of detecting the planets," said Kepler's Science Principal Investigator William Borucki at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. "We have thoroughly measured the background ...
Friday, Mar 20
Finding Twin Earths Is Harder Than Thought - Science Daily
Finding Twin Earths Is Harder Than Thought 21, 2009) — Does a twin Earth exist somewhere in our galaxy? Astronomers are getting closer and closer to finding an Earth-sized planet in an Earth-like orbit. NASA's Kepler spacecraft just launched to find such worlds. Once the search succeeds, ...
