Kepler
After orbiting the Milky Way galaxy for over six years, unmanned space Kepler -438b may have found an Earth-like planet capable of sustaining human life.
Attempts to fix the Kepler Space Telescope failed, prompting NASA to end their mission to fully recover the spacecraft that was considered as the star of NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission.
Attempts to fix the Kepler Space Telescope failed, prompting NASA to end their mission to fully recover the spacecraft that was considered as the star of NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission.
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, is in serious trouble.
Despite the fact that Earth-like planets in habitable zones are being identified at a faster and faster rate, there's still no confirmation that life exists or could exist on any of them. One scientist is arguing that's because we need to think outside the box more.
Scientists from NASA's Kepler mission peering into solar systems 1,200 light-years away have uncovered three more supersized Earthlike planets located in the star's habitable zone.
NASA's Kepler mission, whose goal is to search for and study habitable planets, has identified a rather tiny planet of significance recently: Kepler-37b is smallest planet we know of outside our solar system orbiting around a star similar to our sun.
As the accoutrements for research grow in scope and scale, scientists are realizing that an Earth-like planet may not be so rare as once thought. A new study out of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) states that the closest one may be a mere 13 light-years away.
