News articles tagged with 'Kepler'
New instrument will help confirm Kepler's planet finds
— 14 Feb 2011 15:09 | AstronomyThe search for planets outside our solar system continues to heat up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, however confirming them remains a challenge.…
Earth-size planet candidates found in habitable zone
— 3 Feb 2011 17:18 | AstronomyNASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.…
Kepler discovers its first rocky planet
— 11 Jan 2011 17:08 | AstronomyNASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our…
NASA's Kepler Mission changing how astronomers study distant stars
— 27 Oct 2010 11:51 | AstronomyThe quantity and quality of data coming back from NASA's Kepler Mission is changing how astronomers study stars, said Iowa State University's Steve Kawaler…
NASA's Kepler mission discovers two planets transiting same star
— 26 Aug 2010 19:01 | AstronomyNASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet transiting the same star. Today's announcement of the discovery of the two planets,…
NASA releases Kepler data on potential extrasolar planets
— 16 Jun 2010 13:23 | AstronomyNASA's Kepler Mission has released 43 days of science data on more than 156,000 stars. These stars are being monitored for subtle brightness changes as part of an ongoing search for…
Listening to other stars
— 16 Feb 2010 11:32 | AstronomyWhen scientists realised that observing and analysing oscillations in the Sun could provide information about its interior, it was only a matter of time before Helioseismology was put…
Kepler discovers its first five exoplanets
— 5 Jan 2010 15:29 | Astronomy'These observations contribute to our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve from the gas and dust disks that give rise to both the stars and their planets,' said William…
Will Kepler find habitable moons?
— 3 Sep 2009 13:35 | AstronomySince the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another star. Now, in an echo…
Kepler detects atmosphere of giant gas exoplanet
— 7 Aug 2009 06:49 | AstronomyNASA's Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas exoplanet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities. The discovery will be…