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NASA ramps up search for habitable planets near Earth

Brittany Hillen, May 24th 2013 Discuss [2]

...such planets on April 18 via the Kepler space telescope. Such planets exist within ... and potential habitability. That is where NASA's upcoming TESS telescope will come...-planets found. According to Universe Today, NASA TESS's Principle Investigator George ...

NASA discovers three Kepler system planets in the habitable zone

Brittany Hillen, Apr 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

...'s size. The next smallest is Kepler-69e, which NASA says is 60-percent ... step closer to discovering an Earth twin. NASA's Science Mission Directorate associate administrator John Grunsfeld said: "The Kepler spacecraft has certainly turned out to be ...

Google and NASA buy D-Wave quantum computer

Chris Davies, May 16th 2013 Discuss [7]

... manufactured by D-Wave and based at NASA's Ames Research Center, where the ... protein folding" a spokesperson told Forbes. For NASA, meanwhile, the Ames team will use the...Ames team is also responsible for the Kepler project which is hunting space for ...

Hunt for alien life is too Earth-fixated argues expert

Chris Davies, May 3rd 2013 Discuss [2]

...undue loss of that warmth. NASA has been using the Kepler space telescope to ... are accommodated within mission guidelines, however, Kepler's hunt could become far more ...could change within the decade, however, with NASA green-lighting 2017 plans for TESS,...

NASA extends Kepler Earth-a-like search until 2016

Chris Davies, Apr 5th 2012 Discuss [1]

... NASA review as "an outstanding success." "Kepler is not only a unique source...a planet and not something else. "Kepler has revolutionized our understanding of ...of 2014. [timeline] [via Space; Image credit: NASA/Kepler mission/Wendy Stenzel]...

NASA Discovers Earth-sized Planets in New Solar System

Rue Liu, Feb 3rd 2011 Discuss [2]

...a planet's surface. “The historic milestones Kepler makes with each new discovery will ... Kepler program scientist at NASA headquarters Kepler has found 1,235 planet ... could have moons with liquid water.” Kepler is a space telescope that ...

NASA finds mysterious “hidden” planet

Chris Davies, May 10th 2012 Discuss [2]

NASA's Kepler mission continues to discover new, mysterious planets in the ... to its blocking of a distant star. Kepler identifies possible planets from their repeat ... varying by up to a few hours. Kepler had originally indicated a single planet in...

Earth-like planet Kepler 22-b confirmed by NASA

Chris Burns, Dec 5th 2011 Discuss [18]

...What we've got here is Kepler 22-b, a body that ... the star it circles, the Kepler space telescope currently also studying ...of the planet around its star. NASA's Ames Research Center's ... results announced at the first Kepler science conference included a total...

NASA discovers Tatooine-like planet possibly with habitable moon

Shane McGlaun, Jan 11th 2012 Discuss [2]

NASA discovered a very interesting new planet using the Kepler spacecraft that has been dubbed Kepler-16b last fall. ...a moon that might be orbiting the Tatooine-like planet. Kepler-16b was discovered last fall and a recent ...

Kepler’s Supernova remnant provides possible evidence of explosion

Craig Lloyd, Mar 18th 2013 Discuss [2]

... findings of the supernova's explosion based on remnants. Observed with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the remnant of Kepler's Supernova shows red, green, and blue colors, which represent low...

Kepler telescope finds 11 new planetary systems, one has five planets

Shane McGlaun, Jan 27th 2012 Discuss [4]

The NASA team that operates the Kepler space telescope has used their all-seeing eye ... of planets that have been discovered by the Kepler team to 60. In all, there are... in the newly discovered group is called Kepler-33. This star is bigger and older ...

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovers possibly evaporating planet

Shane McGlaun, May 21st 2012 Discuss [5]

Astronomers using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope have discovered a planet that orbits so close to its parent star its surface may be evaporating. The planet's evaporating surface is believed to be leaving behind a trail similar to that...

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