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The primary objective of NASA’s Kepler mission is to determine how common rocky planets are in the habitable zone with the ability to detect Earth-size planets […]
Extrasolar planets have captured the public imagination in recent years for reasons ranging from the joy of scientific discovery to the desire of finding a new […]
On May 10, 2016 NASA held a press conference to announce officially the discovery of the latest group of extrasolar planets found by the Kepler mission. […]
In recent years we have witnessed a veritable flood of extrasolar planetary discoveries from NASA’s Kepler mission which watches for regular decreases in a star’s brightness […]
One of the objectives of NASA’s Kepler mission launched on March 7, 2009, as well as one of the important drivers of its design, was to […]
I have said it before but it certainly bears repeating: without a doubt, the most prolific planet hunter to date has got to be NASA’s Kepler […]
It has turned out that 2015 has been a banner year for the search for potentially habitable planets. It started on January 6 at a meeting […]
Note: An updated review of Wolf 359 can be found in “The Real Wolf 359 Revisited – New Planetary Discoveries“. Over the past couple of […]
It has been almost two decades since the first extrasolar planets were discovered orbiting Sun-like stars using precision radial velocity measurements. But as more accurate instruments […]
Without a doubt, the most prolific planet hunter to date has got to be NASA’s Kepler mission. Launched into solar orbit on March 7, 2009, Kepler […]
For over half a century, controversy has swirled around Barnard’s Star and the possibility it could harbor extrasolar planets. Back when I was growing up in […]
Back in July 2014, the press was filled with stories about the apparent disappearance of two potentially habitable extrasolar planets thought to be orbiting the nearby […]
