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A Brief History Of Exo-Earths And The Search For Extraterrestrial Life

... in technology (with fantastic innovations such as the Kepler mission ) have led to the number of known exoplanets exploding. At ... the vast trove of data taken by the primary mission of the Kepler spacecraft have a further 4,178 candidate planets, awaiting ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 26 2014 - 4:30pm - 0 attachments

Shale Gas Is Here To Stay - Here Are Ways To Keep It Safe And Productive

... materials, from the wastewater. Vidic, the William Kepler Whiteford Professor and Chair in the Department of Civil and ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2014 - 11:08am - 0 attachments

HIP 116454b Shows That Despite Malfunction, Kepler Can Still Find Planets

... that ended its primary mission in May 2013, the Kepler spacecraft is still alive and working and its data has found a new "super-Earth". NASA's Kepler spacecraft detected planets by looking for transits, when a star dims ... precise and that requires maintaining a steady pointing. Kepler can't really do that any more, its primary functionality came to an end ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2014 - 11:47am - 0 attachments

Would Aliens Spot Our Planet from the Star System Nearby?

... That was one of the questions answered by NASA’s Kepler team consisting of SETI researchers, during an “Ask Me Anything” ... to being able to directly image Earth,” Jason Rowe, Kepler mission team member of the SETI Institute answered. “A few research ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Dec 10 2014 - 5:21pm - 0 attachments

No Greater Insult: E.O. Wilson Dismisses Richard Dawkins As 'A Journalist'

In the first decade of the the new millennium, there was a lot of hand-wringing about the cutting of science journalism jobs at mainstream news outlets. The groundswell of support was...okay, it was nonexistent, really just limited to science journalists. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 18 2014 - 11:41am - 0 attachments

How To Replicate The Tide For $27

... criticized, he launched into vitriolic attacks on both Kepler and math , though they both were clearly right and Galileo was clearly ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2014 - 10:27pm - 0 attachments

HAT-P-11b: Smallest Exoplanet With Water Vapor Found

... on the face of stars — on the parent star. Luckily, Kepler had been observing the patch of sky in which HAT-P-11b happens to lie ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2014 - 12:14pm - 0 attachments

How To Distinguish Venus-Like Planets From Possible Earths

... when sorting for a habitable one.  NASA's Kepler space telescope can identify planets close to their suns by recording ... looked at potential Venus-like planets located in the Kepler database. They searched for planets that were between half Earth's size ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 10:23am - 0 attachments

On the Hunt for Wobbling Circumbinary Alien Planets

Observations made by the Kepler spacecraft have shown that Kepler-413b is a very wobbling exoplanet. The planet's orbit is unusual in that ... of a binary star by a circum-orbiting dark companion ". Kepler-413b is the newest example, but there are more circumbinary planets ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Aug 31 2014 - 12:36pm - 0 attachments

Kepler-421b: Transiting Exoplanet With Longest Known Year

Kepler-421b has been revealed as a transiting exoplanet with the longest ... and have much shorter orbital periods. The host star, Kepler-421, is located about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lyra.  Kepler-421b orbits an orange, type K star that is cooler and dimmer than our ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 9:09am - 0 attachments