Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...
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Scientists Discovered Planets Even Better for Life Than Earth
Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists ...
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"It's Earth 2.0" What we know about new planet Kepler-452b
The water vapour would be lost from the planet forever," explained Kepler scientist Dr Doug Caldwell. "Kepler-452b could be experiencing now what the Earth will undergo more than a billion years ...
SETI6 年
Douglas Caldwell
Caldwell is a Co-Investigator on the Kepler Mission, the Instrument Scientist for the Kepler Mission. He works at the Kepler Science Office on the whole instrument/detector system. Just 20 years ago, ...
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Scientists Discover a Planet That May Be Even More Habitable Than Earth
The discovery of Kepler-442b highlights the ongoing search for Earth 2.0. Scientists are constantly refining their methods ...
SETI11 年
Jeffrey Smith
Looking toward the future, Dr. Smith is involved with adapting the Kepler science processing algorithms for use with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satallite (TESS), a new NASA planet finding mission ...