Keith’s 2:30 pm EST note: NASA Ames PAO just hosted a media briefing on new Kepler news being released today i.e. “22Âħ8 % of the Sun-like stars have an Earth-like […]
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Hubble Spots Blue Gas Giant
Hubble Spots Blue Planet [With Video], NASA/ESA/STSCI “Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have, for the first time, determined the true color of a planet orbiting another star. If […]
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Some Good News For Kepler
Kepler Mission Manager Update “The operations staff at Ball Aerospace did a wonderful job at developing and implementing PRS. As a result, the spacecraft is not in an emergency condition, […]
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Hearing: Exoplanet Discoveries: Have We Found Other Earths?
Hearing charter “The purpose of the hearing is to review the recent discovery of three super-Earth sized planets by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Kepler space telescope. The […]
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Alpha Centauri B Has An Earth-Mass Planet
Earth-Mass Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri B “European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the […]
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Possibly Habitable Planet Found
NASA and NSF-Funded Research Finds First Potentially Habitable Exoplanet “A team of planet hunters from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has announced […]