New algorithm digs up 18 Earth-like exoplanets from old Kepler data

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by Megan Williamson - May 24, 2019

So far almost 4,000 planets have been discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun, and that tally is constantly growing. Now another 18 exoplanets have been added to the haul, but the difference this time is that all of them are roughly Earth-sized – much smaller than the Neptune-sized average

NASA to Make Announcement About Kepler Telescope

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by David Harris - October 30, 2018

An illustration of the Kepler space telescope.

NASA is about to make an announcement about the Kepler, potentially to say the planet-hunting telescope has finally run out of fuel almost a decade after being launched into space.A tweet from the agency that in the teleconference, it will “provide an update on the status” of the telescope, and

Last gasp? NASA fires up fading Kepler telescope for Campaign 19

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by differentimpulse - September 6, 2018September 6, 2018

Kepler's fuel stocks are dwindling, but there may be life left in it yet

Although the science mission of its successor, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now underway, NASA isn't done with the Kepler Space Telescope just yet. Its scientists have awoken the deep space probe to gather scientific data yet again, though with an unknown amount of fuel and a compromised

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