Science May 10 NASA’s Kepler mission doubles tally of exoplanets by weeding out impostors By Nsikan Akpan
Science Jul 23 NASA’s Kepler telescope finds the closest copy of Earth to date NASA Kepler's mission adds 500 new exoplanets to its library. By Nsikan Akpan
Science Dec 19 Kepler keeps going, finds new ‘super-Earth’ NASA’s Kepler space telescope, once thought “beyond repair,” has found a planet two and a half times the size of Earth outside the Milky Way, the space agency announced Thursday. By Joshua Barajas
Science Apr 17 Watch Kepler telescope spots a planet that seems a lot like home NASA scientists say the Kepler space telescope may have discovered the most “Earth-like” planet yet. Circling a star about 500 light-years away, planet Kepler 186-F may be the right temperature to allow liquid water to flow on its surface. Hari… By PBS NewsHour
Science Apr 17 Kepler finds new Earth-like planet 500 light-years away NASA explanatory scientists announced Thursday that the Kepler Space Telescope has found an Earth-like planet in our galaxy. Elisa Quintana, exoplanet research scientist for the SETI Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center, says the planet is in the “Goldilocks zone,”… By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy
Nov 05 Watch Discovery of Earth-size planets rouses search for intelligent life Discovery of Earth-size planets incites the search for intelligent life… Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch Time Runs Out for Telescope, Examining Kepler’s Contribution to Space Research Time Runs Out for Telescope, Examining Kepler's Contribution to Space Research… Continue watching
Feb 03 Watch My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us New Planets — 1,200 of Them Perhaps you learned a mnemonic device such as the one above to help remember the planets -- Mercury, Venus, Earth, etc. -- and their order away from the sun. Turns out, we're going to need a longer mnemonic after the… Continue watching
Mar 06 NASA Telescope to Search for Earth-like Planets By PBS NewsHour A NASA telescope is set to launch Friday night from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, on a three-and-a-half year mission to scan the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planets. Continue reading