Planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope retired
NASA ‘retires’ planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, that discovered 2,600 exoplanets.
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The Space Telescopes of the future – infographic
Hubble Space Telescope is sending us for more than 25 years amazing images about our Universe. Take a look at what is next…
Project Blue Space Telescope to find another Earth
Project Blue, a mission to build and launch a telescope, to photograph Earth-like planets, around our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.
Kepler announces largest Collection of Planets ever discovered
NASA’s Kepler space telescope mission has just verified 1,284 new planets, doubling its haul in largest exoplanet discovery ever. 2,325 exoplanets and counting…
Neptune-Sized Moon in a Distant Solar System discovered
An ‘exomoon’ that is almost three times the size of Earth orbiting a Jupiter-sized planet, discovered outside our Solar System.
There are about 300 million Habitable Planets in the Milky Way
Scientists using data from the Kepler space telescope, estimated that there could be as many as 300 million potentially habitable planets in our galaxy.
Earth-sized ‘pi planet’ with a 3.14-day orbit
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet that zips around its star every 3.14 days.
Most Earth-like Exoplanet discovered
The most Earth-like exoplanet discovered, 300 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable zone of its star., hidden in early NASA Kepler data.
How many Earth-like planets are nearby?
New study provides most accurate estimate of frequency that exoplanets similar to Earth occur around stars similar to our sun.
18 Earth-sized exoplanets discovered
Astronomers using a new method to find small planets orbiting nearby stars, which previous surveys had overlooked, discovered 18 Earth-sized exoplanets.