NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface.
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The mission operations team just successfully completed our latest science data downlink and we are making final preparations for the Kepler Science Conference.
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NASA will host a news briefing during the Kepler Science Conference at 8 a.m. PST, Monday, Dec. 5, to announce new discoveries by the Kepler mission.
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Busy times are routine for the Kepler project team. Since my last update, we have announced several more confirmed planets — Kepler-16b, and the Kepler 18 system (18b, 18c, and 18d).
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On Dec. 6, join Dr. Natalie Batalha and Dr. Don Kurtz for a free public talk on NASA’s first mission capable of detecting Earth-size planets around Sun-like stars.
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More than a thousand visitors turned out for the Kepler Mission-themed corn maze on Oct. 1, 2011, hosted by NASA and the Dell’Osso Family Farm of Lathrop, Calif.
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A team of researchers used data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to discover an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptune-sized planets orbiting in resonance with each other.
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A world with a double sunset that was first imagined in Star Wars over 30 years ago in a galaxy far, far away has become scientific reality.
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – News media are invited to visit Space Farm 7, a unique corn maze commemorating 50 years of human spaceflight by NASA and the Dell’Osso Family Farm in Lathrop, Calif., at 12 p.m. PDT on Oct. 1, 2011.
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NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has spotted a planet that alternately runs late and early in its orbit because a second, “invisible” world is tugging on it.
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