Known for the ability to find alien worlds, the Kepler Space Telescope has changed our way of thinking of the universe. But how was it built?
Farewell, Kepler: NASA shuts down prolific planet-hunting space telescope Since Kepler's launch, astronomers have discovered thousands of extra-solar planets, or exoplanets through this telescope alone. Most of them are planets that are between the size of Earth and Neptune (which is four times ...
When humans look into outer space and its amazing distant realms, sometimes all we really want to find is someplace like home. Another planet like Earth, that is. Soon, a new NASA telescope mission called Kepler may finally make that happen. Set to launch March 5 from Florida's Cape ...
Later this decade NASA will launch the Nancy GraceRoman Space Telescope. Roman will find potentially thousands of distant planets using the microlensing method. TheEuropean Space Agency’s Euclid mission, due to launch next year, could also undertake a microlensing exoplanet search as ...
childhood. After theCounter-Reformationcame in 1625, Catholic authorities temporarily removed his library and ordered his children to attend mass. In 1615 Kepler used the occasion of a practical problem to produce a theoretical treatise on the volumes ofwinebarrels. HisStereometria Doliorum Vinario...
Sixty-two minutes after launch Kepler will have separated entirely from its rocket and will be in its final Earth-trailing orbit around the sun, an orbit similar to that of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. "We are very excited to see this magnificent spacecraft come to life when it reaches...
It?s going to change the waypeople think about space. And I also think it?s going to change the way NASA?stargeting future missions to do follow-up.? New Video - Kepler: Hunting Alien Earths Top 10 Most Intriguing Extrasolar Planets New Video - How NASA?s Kepler Spacecraft Will Launch...
At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society earlier this month, the NASA Kepler Space Telescope team announced its 1,000th discovery of a planet outside our solar system. This brings the total number of confirmed exoplanets to 1,795, with
Astronomer Ed Shaya was in his office looking at data from NASA's Kepler space telescope in 2012 when he noticed something unusual: The light from a galaxy had quickly brightened by 10 percent. The sudden bump in light got Shaya instantly excited, but al
The mission is now in Phase C/D development and isscheduled for launch in 2008 into a 372-day heliocentric orbit.WILLIAM J. BORUCKLDAVID KOCHGIBOR BASRITIMOTHY BROWNDOUGLAS CALDWELLEDNA DEVOREEDWARD DUNHAMTHOMAS GAUTIERJOHN GEARYRONALD GILLILAND...