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7 Aug
2016
August 7, 2016

Habitable Zone Exoplanets from NASA’s Kepler Mission

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 […]
Astronomy, Extrasolar Planets, Planetary Habitability
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8 Jan
2015
January 8, 2015

Habitable Planet Reality Check: 8 New Habitable Zone Planets

NASA’s Kepler mission has now reached a new milestone with 1,000 confirmed planets to its credit. In addition, another 554 candidate planets requiring follow-up study have […]
Astrobiology, Astronomy, Extrasolar Planets, Planetary Habitability
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24 Jul
2014
July 24, 2014

Habitable Planet Reality Check: Terrestrial Planet Size Limit

Among the lay public, probably one of the most misunderstood astronomical terms that has recently come into common use has to be “super-Earth”. All too often, […]
Astrobiology, Astronomy, Extrasolar Planets, Planetary Habitability
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