MIDLAND, Texas — Oil and gas are not the only reason folks are visiting Midland these days. More and more people are coming here from the space industry. On Monday, former astronaut, Terry Virts, ...
From KQED QUEST’s Andrea Kissack: NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been given more time to look for life-supporting planets outside our own solar system. The project, which has found ...
NASA's Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2009 on a mission to search for exoplanets, is in a safe mode amid concerns the spacecraft may be finally running out of fuel. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA’s ...
Kepler isn't dead after all. Launched in 2009, the famous space telescope tasked with finding Earth-like planets has identified more than 1,000 exoplanets among 4,175 candidates it's discovered. After ...
Some of those exoplanets found by NASA's Kepler spacecraft are teeming with life - at least in the fictional visits to them compiled by Kepler project scientist Steve Howell. Howell, known to ...