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On July 24, 2024, an international team of scientists, headed by Dr. Elisabeth Matthews of the Max Plank Institute for Astronomy, announced that they had used […]
Growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s, I was an avid viewer of science fiction on television. Naturally, the programs I watched included the classic […]
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 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 […]
Before the discovery of the first exoplanets, astronomers thought they understood the architecture of planetary systems. Using our own solar system as a guide, it was […]
The nearby α Centauri system is among the best known among astronomers and the general public alike. Frequently the setting of various science fiction stories over […]
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 […]
Announcements about the discovery of habitable extrasolar planets have regularly dominated the news from the astronomical community over the last several years. This naturally reflects the […]
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 […]
The main objective of NASA’s Kepler mission and the primary driver of its design was to find Earth-sized planets in Earth-like orbits around Sun-like stars – […]
Before the discovery of the first extrasolar planets two decades ago, astronomers expected that the architecture of our Solar System was typical – a more or […]
