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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5 Habitable Zone Planets Discovered By Kepler
Kepler-62 Has Two Water Worlds Circling in its Habitable Zone “In our solar system, only one planet is blessed with an ocean: Earth. Our home world is a rare, blue […]
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Interesting Kepler News Ahead?
NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Planetary Discovery “NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency’s Kepler […]
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Kepler Has Problems
NASA Kepler Mission Update 17 January 2013 “Earlier this month during a semi-weekly contact with the spacecraft, the team detected an increase in the amount of torque required to spin […]
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There Are Lots of Earth-sized Planets Out There
At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-Sized Planet “The quest for a twin Earth is heating up. Using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, astronomers are beginning to find Earth-sized planets […]
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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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Component of Life Found Near Sun-like Star
Building Blocks of Life Found Around Young Sun-like Star “The astronomers found molecules of glycolaldehyde — a simple form of sugar — in the gas surrounding a young binary star, […]
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Kepler Has Identified 2,300 Extrasolar Planet Candidates
Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler, III: Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data “New transiting planet candidates are identified in sixteen months (May 2009 – September 2010) of data […]
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Planets Are Common – Everywhere
The Milky Way Contains At Least 100 Billion Planets According to Survey “Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based […]
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News Embargo Inconsistencies
NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System “NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e […]