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Has NASA's Kepler discovered any exoplanets that may harbour life?
The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it ...
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Kepler – NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft – retired after…
As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and ...
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NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is dead. Long live Kepler.
All good things must come to an end, on Earth and even in space. NASA announced on Tuesday that the Kepler mission — which has transformed how we understand planets outside of our solar system ...
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Kepler Planet Hunter Nears End Of Epic Journey
The Kepler spacecraft is in the final moments of its life. NASA isn’t quite sure when they’ll say their last goodbye to the space telescope which has confirmed the existence of thousands of ...
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NASA’s Kepler spots a star slurping up a planet
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Kepler space telescope is extremely good at spotting the subtle hints of ...
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This is the Kepler space telescope’s last image after nearly a decade of work
It’s now been a few months since the Kepler space telescope bit the dust, but the work it did will still have an impact for a long time to come. In a new post, NASA reveals the telescope’s ...
Strangest worlds ever discovered in the universe – from stinky planet that rains glass SIDEWAYS to ‘Earth 2.0’
IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...
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NASA’s Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the grave
The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...
Eccentricities of orbits point to significantly different upbringings for small and large planets
The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.