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During a press conference held on January 6, 2020 at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Honolulu, Emily Gilbert (then a graduate […]
Even though NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was officially retired on October 30, 2018 after it finally exhausted its propellant used for attitude control, teams of scientists around […]
While NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was shutdown well over a year ago, there are still teams of scientists around the globe combing through its huge, nine-year database […]
Launched on April 18, 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been systematically surveying about 200,000 of the brightest stars over most of the sky […]
Launched on March 7, 2009, the objective of NASA’s Kepler mission was to observe the brightness of 150,000 stars in a 115 square degree patch of […]
The year 2019 is proving to be a fruitful one for the discovery of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars especially our smallest neighbors, red dwarfs. On August […]
As engineers and space travel enthusiasts continue to make progress tackling the problems associated with interstellar travel, astronomers around the globe have been busy searching for […]
Without a doubt, NASA’s Kepler mission has been the most prolific discoverer of extrasolar planets to date. It has done this by looking for periodic dips […]
The year 2017 is certainly proving to be a fertile one for the discovery of potentially habitable exoplanets. Just a year ago there were maybe five […]
I doubt that there are many space enthusiasts or even scientists out there who remember the first time they ever heard mention of the name Tau […]
On June 19, 2017, NASA held a press conference at Ames Research Center located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. At this event, Mario Perez […]
While the flood of exoplanetary discoveries from NASA’s Kepler program has dominated headlines in recent years, there are a host of lesser known programs which have […]
