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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...
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Has NASA's Kepler discovered any exoplanets that may harbour life?
The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable?
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Kepler – NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft – retired after…
The Kepler mission was conceived as a Discovery Program mission at the turn of the century and was approved as the tenth mission in the program in December 2001. At that time only 80 exoplanets ...
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Stunningly Earth-Like Planet Found Hiding in Kepler Telescope Data
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Rocky, overweight planet shakes up theories
The exoplanet Kepler-10c didn’t get that memo. With 17 times the mass of Earth, the distant planet is the heaviest rocky planet known. And astronomers have no idea how it formed. With the mass ...
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NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is dead. Long live Kepler.
The spacecraft is responsible for finding more than 2,600 exoplanets circling distant stars in far-off parts of the galaxy. There's poetry in Kepler's ability to make us feel both small and also ...
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NASA just discovered nearly 100 new alien planets as the search for life heats up
NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the ... still has plenty of power to comb the heavens for undetected exoplanets. In order to spot these new worlds, scientists began sifting ...