<p></p> <p>NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting in their star’s
<p></p> <p>As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets
<p></p> <p>The NASA-funded Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, has completed its first study of dust in the “habitable zone” around a star, opening a new door to finding planets like
<p><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/kepler/20150106/kepler20150106-16.jpg" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Exactly five years ago, on March 6, 2009, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA’s Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.</p> <p>Nearly 95 percent of
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>In an interesting twist to the story of NASA’s ace planet-hunting telescope Kepler, mission managers have announced their intention to bring the mission back online despite suffering a crippling
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans, according to NASA-funded theoretical research.</p> <p>Our sun is a carbon-poor star, and as result, our planet Earth is