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Kepler is dead. Now what?
Elizabeth Rayne
Nov 1, 2018

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Good news and bad news: Hubble and Chandra back on duty, Kepler and Dawn may be at the ends of their missions
Phil Plait
Oct 29, 2018
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Four great space missions: Hubble (top left), Chandra (top right), Kepler (bottom left), and Dawn (bottom right). Credit (respectively): NASA, NASA/CXC/NGST, NASA, NASA/JPL-Caltech
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A (possibly) record-breaking exoplanet found with a ten-year orbit
Phil Plait
Jul 9, 2018
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Artwork depicting a system of planets around a red dwarf star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)
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Looking for other Earths: Are we being too picky?
Phil Plait
Jun 5, 2018
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Artwork depicting a habitable exomoon orbiting a gas giant around another star. Credit: NASA / GSFC / Jay Friedlander and Britt Griswold
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Everything you need to know about TESS, NASA's new planet-finding space observatory
Phil Plait
Apr 16, 2018
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Artwork of the TESS observatory in orbit. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
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Exocomets detected orbiting nearby stars. In other words: alien comets!
Phil Plait
Mar 19, 2018
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Artist’s impression of comets orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
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And Kepler-90i makes eight: Another eight-planet solar system found!
Phil Plait
Dec 15, 2017
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Kepler 90 planets. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel
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Have astronomers found evidence for an exomoon? Maaaaaaaybe.
Phil Plait
Jul 28, 2017
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Artwork depicting a gas giant exoplanet with a gas giant exomoon.
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A passel of new planets shows our solar system is very weird, and we don't know why
Phil Plait
Jun 20, 2017
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NASA's Kepler space telescope has found 2 more planets that could support alien life
Trent Moore
Jul 25, 2016
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NASA's Kepler telescope doubles down on the number of known exoplanets
Jeff Spry
May 12, 2016
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Following a near-loss late last week, NASA has revived the Kepler Space Telescope
Trent Moore
Apr 11, 2016
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Pack your things, NASA has discovered the most Earth-like planet yet
Don Kaye
Jul 26, 2015
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