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NASA’s Kepler Telescope Receives Final Commands From Deep Space Network
We will never hear from NASA’s Kepler space telescope again. On October 30, the space agency announced the…
A Fresh Batch of Exoplanets Were Just Confirmed Orbiting Cool Red Dwarf Stars
NASA’s Kepler along with a pair of telescopes on Earth confirmed 15 new exoplanets recently. All of them…
New Kepler Exoplanet Discoveries Includes the Brightest Star With a Confirmed Planet Orbiting It
Add another 95 exoplanets to the total tally discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft. One of them orbits the…
Our Solar System is the Weird One Says Recent Study on Alien Worlds
Planetary systems outside our own tend to follow a similar pattern. The planets are usually around the same…
Kepler’s Final Tally Of Planets After Staring At 160,000 Stars Is In
For Kepler’s first four years, it stared at a patch of sky in the Cygnus constellation. As it…
Winds of Fire and Vaporized Jewels Swirl on Alien Planet
The dry furnace of Arizona or the wet heat of Florida. Hot is hot. But these corners of…
Why Scientists Keep Finding Dwarf Planets
8.5 billion miles away from the Sun sits a cold world bathed in darkness. Known as 2014 UZ224,…
NASA’s Kepler Trades Bright Stars For Dim Comet 67P
NASA’s Kepler telescope is best known for looking for minuscule dips in brightness around stars to spot planets.…
Kepler Confirms 104 Planets With a Little Help From Earth Telescopes
181 light years away, four planets pass in front of their star – K2-72. Kepler has just spotted…
Young Exoplanet Could Fill Important Gap in Evolution of Planets
Since its launch in 2009, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft (with some help from other telescopes) has discovered close to…
Kepler Spots a ‘Tatooine’ Planet Unlike Any Other (So Far)
Scientists officially call them circumbinary planets, but even they can’t help but dub them ‘Tatooine’ planets. The latest…
How Earth Was Warm Enough for Life Despite a Dimmer Sun
Scientists call it the Faint Young Sun Paradox. Around four billion years ago, the sun’s brightness was about…