NASA X-ray Telescope Observes Planet Passing in Front of its Star for the First Time, NASA “For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, […]
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Some Hope for Kepler
Kepler Mission Manager Update: Preparing for Recovery, NASA “The engineering team has devised initial tests for the recovery attempt and is checking them on the spacecraft test bed at the […]
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More Kepler Data Available
Kepler Delivers More Data for Exoplanet Hunters, NASA Ames Research Center “On May 28 NASA’s Kepler mission delivered new data to the NASA Exoplanet Archive for Exoplanet hunters to dig […]
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Our Neighbours Include Earth-sized Planets
Earth-like Planets Are Right Next Door, SpaceRef “Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found that six percent of […]
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Kepler Withholds Data While NASA Struggles To Be Relevant
Exoplanets: Show me the data!, Nature “And according to NASA Watch, the NASA astrophysics division is prohibiting discussion of the new 306 candidate planets until they are confirmed, even though […]