planet hunting
NASA Wants You to Be the Rando Who Finds Our Solar System’s Hidden Planet
Crowdsourcing the search for the hypothetical Neptune-sized world at the edge of the solar system.
Kepler Is Saved! How NASA Used Its Deep Space Network to Avert Catastrophe
The Deep Space Network is a crucial link to spacecraft beyond Earth.
92 Percent of Earth-Like Planets Are Yet to Be Born, NASA Study Says
92 percent of all potentially habitable planet-formation is yet to occur, but we'll never see the results.
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NASA’s Kepler Telescope Finds a Wobbly World with Brutal Seasons
A rough place to produce extraterrestrial life.
The Kepler Space Telescope's Planet-Hunting Days Are Over, But It's Been A Great Run
Now the question is what else can it do.
Our Nearest Neighbor Star Hosts an Earth-Mass Planet
An Earth-ish planet orbiting a red dwarf star would be the saddest thing. A perfect ball of rock, featuring plenty of carbon and water and methane, orbiting a dark star with no visible light, and stuck in tidal lock. That is, it orbits the star so...
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