Astronomers may have detected evidence of a possible planet disintegrating under the searing heat of its host star located 1,500 light-years from Earth.
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News media and the public are invited to observe the transit of Venus broadcast live from atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, beginning at 3:04 p.m. PDT Tuesday, June 5, 2012 in the Exploration Center at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The June 5th transit will be the final opportunity to witness the rare astronomical reunion until 2117.
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April was a momentous time for the mission! The team received approval for a mission extension through fiscal year 2016.
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NASA’s Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016.
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On Feb. 29, 2012, a Kepler project team contingent briefed a senior review panel and NASA Headquarters members on a proposal for extending the Kepler baseline mission. On March 7, the Kepler mission team received the 2012 Aviation Week Laureate Award for Space.
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On March 31 and April 1, team members from NASA Ames and the Kepler mission will participate in the first SpaceUp San Francisco event held at Citizen Space.
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Kepler has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Space Foundation’s John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration.
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NASA’s Kepler mission has been named winner of the 2012 Aviation Week Laureate Award in the Space category.
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February is Black History Month, and to mark the occasion, we recently sat down with John Johnson, scientist at NASA’s Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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Since science operations began in May 2009, the Kepler team has released two catalogs of transiting planet candidates.
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