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NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.
The discovery … Read the rest of this article
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NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.
The discovery … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s Kepler mission Science Operations Center software system was named winner of the 2010 NASA Software of the Year Award by the NASA Software Advisory Panel.
Designed, developed and operated by the Kepler Science Operations Center (SOC) at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., the SOC software system is used to find Earth-size planets using photometric data acquired … Read the rest of this article
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NASA mission controllers have not heard from Mars rover Spirit since March 22 as the rover faces its toughest challenge yet – trying to survive the harsh Martian winter.
On July 26, mission managers began using a paging technique … Read the rest of this article