Imagine living on a planet with seasons so erratic you would hardly know whether to wear Bermuda shorts or a heavy overcoat. That is the situation on a weird, wobbly world found by NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope.
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Imagine living on a planet with seasons so erratic you would hardly know whether to wear Bermuda shorts or a heavy overcoat.
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The Kepler team today reports on four years of ground-based follow-up observations targeting Kepler’s exoplanet systems at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington.
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The Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters has invited the Kepler project to submit a funding proposal for a two-wheel mission, dubbed K2, to its 2014 Senior Review of operating missions.
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NASA has invited Kepler to the 2014 Senior Review to propose for funding for a two-wheel mission, dubbed K2.
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Engineers have developed an innovative way to stabilize and control the spacecraft. This technique of using the sun as the “third wheel” could have Kepler on the hunt for planets again, soon.
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Scientists from around the world are gathered this week at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., for the second Kepler Science Conference, where they will discuss the latest findings resulting from the analysis of Kepler Space Telescope data.
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Scientists from around the world are gathered this week at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., for the second Kepler Science Conference.
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Media are invited to attend a news briefing at 10:15 a.m. PST Monday, Nov. 4, to announce new results from the agency’s Kepler mission. The briefing, during the Kepler Science Conference, will be held in Building 152 at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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NASA will video stream a news briefing at 10:15 a.m. PST (1:15 p.m. EST) Monday, Nov. 4, to announce new results from the agency’s Kepler mission. The briefing, taking place during the Kepler Science Conference, will be in building 152 at NASA Research Park in Moffett Field, Calif.
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