The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...
A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...
When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...
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Scientists want to make contact with the exoplanet Kepler-22b, but what would that actually look like?
The universe holds countless worlds beyond our reach. Kepler-22b stands out among them—a super-Earth swimming in the habitable zone of its star. Science lets us paint a picture of what we'd find.
PLATO needs all the solar power it can get to find little, Earth-sized planets. Europe's next planet-hunting spacecraft just spread its "wings" in preparation for launch. PLATO's twin solar panels, ...
NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...
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