You Searched For "Kepler telescope" and got 20 results
Sort By:
3 mins read
Habitable earth-sized planet discovered but its Sun doesn't set for over two weeks
The Earth isn’t going to last forever. Scientists continue to debate over what poses the greater …
4 mins read
Images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope remind us, yet again, how improbable it is that we're alone in the universe
Webb's first deep field image is a reminder that the universe is full of galaxies with diverse worl…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
2 mins read
Kepler supernova exploded 400 years ago but hasn’t slowed down — and two pieces of debris are headed towards Earth
The star known as Kepler exploded in a fiery supernova over four centuries ago, but the resulting b…
2 mins read
Kepler estimates there are at least 300 million potentially habitable planets within the Milky Way galaxy
The search for life beyond Earth and the scope of one day settling down on another planet is someth…
5 mins read
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is dead 9 years after launching into space
That next-generation observatory will rival the abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be…
Dave Mosher,Reuters
2 mins read
One Image Shows All The Potential Planets We've Found Outside Our Solar System
Kepler scientists have added 833 new exoplanet candidates (potential planets outside our solar syst…
Dina Spector
2 mins read
New Exoplanet Is A 'Virtual Twin Of Earth'
A planet's mass is traditionally found by measuring the velocity of its host star toward and away o…
Dina Spector
2 mins read
New Exoplanet Is A 'Virtual Twin Of Earth'
A planet's mass is traditionally found by measuring the velocity of its host star toward and away o…
Dina Spector
1 min read
Two Broken Wheels Crippled NASA's $600 Million Telescope
One of the wheels stopped working in July last year. With only three wheels the telescope could sti…
Dina Spector
2 mins read
NASA spots an Enormous Planet outside our Solar System, Orbiting Two Suns and Where Human Life is Possible
Kepler-1647 is 3,700 light-years away and approximately 4.4 billion years old, roughly the …
4 mins read
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable world just 31 light-years away, thanks to NASA's planet-hunting telescope
So far, the telescope has found over 850 potential new planets. The next step is for ground-based t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
5 mins read
SpaceX is about to launch a NASA telescope that could discover thousands of new alien planets
"We learned from Kepler that there are more planets than stars in our sky, and now TESS will open o…
Dave Mosher
4 mins read
A $1 billion telescope that will take pictures 10 times sharper than Hubble's is now officially under construction
But Kepler probed deep and narrow sections of the night sky. NASA's follow-on space mission, called…
Dave Mosher
7 mins read
Another Earth might exist right next door - and this dinky DIY telescope may be the first to see it
"Roughly one out of every two stars has a potentially habitable planet," said Ruslan Belikov, an as…
Dave Mosher
3 mins read
This space telescope just uncovered more than 100 new planets, including a planetary system that might harbor life
"Our analysis shows that by the end of the K2 mission, we expect to double or triple the number of …
Ali Sundermier
5 mins read
Billionaire investor Yuri Milner says he is going to spend $100 million renting massive telescopes to search for life on other planets
These tools are now reaping a harvest of discoveries. In the last few years, astronomers and the Ke…
3 mins read
How exoplanet hunters find alien worlds hundreds of light-years away and figure out if they have water
Using data from space telescopes, researchers recently found two possible water-rich exoplanets. It…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
2 mins read
NASA scientists think some planets are shrinking because powerful radiation from their cores is pushing away their atmospheres
The mystery of a missing class of planets has had NASA astronomers scratching their heads. New evid…
Sebastian Cahill,Morgan McFal…
5 mins read
There could be up to 10 billion warm and cozy Earth-like planets in our home galaxy, new research reveals
But Ford's team didn't want to estimate the number of Earth-like planets in the galaxy based solely…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
2 mins read
16 recently discovered exoplanets could offer our best chance of finding alien life outside the solar system
The telescope used what's known as the transit method to look for exoplanets (worlds outside our so…