NASA's orbiting Kepler telescope may have found its final exoplanet. We say farewell in the most appropriate manner we know how.
MoreNASA's orbiting Kepler telescope may have found its final exoplanet. We say farewell in the most appropriate manner we know how.
MoreDibs. We just called dibs.
MoreThat tail? That's chunks of the planet boiling off.
MoreWe've got a raging nerd love for the Kepler satellite here at Gamma Squad and for excellent reason.
MoreKepler is finding awesome planets like you find loose change under the couch, and doing it at an incredible rate.
MoreTwo months after the first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star and one month after the first discovery of the two exoplanets similar in size to Earth (Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, pictured above), researchers using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and public data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the smallest exoplanets yet.
MoreJust a few weeks after the first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star, NASA announced another record-breaking discovery.
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