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NASA’s Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star
NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten… Continue reading
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars
The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA’s Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet — a… Continue reading
Astrium: perfect rendezvous in space for ATV “Johannes Keplerâ€
- “Johannes Keplerâ€, built by Astrium, docked automatically with the ISS after travelling more than 4 million kilometres in space in one week
- ATV-2 becomes an integral, inhabited part of the ISS
- ATV is currently the most sophisticated space robot in… Continue reading
Europe’s ATV Johannes Kepler supply ship on its way to Space Station
ESA’s second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, has been launched into its targeted low orbit by an Ariane 5. The unmanned supply ship is planned to deliver critical supplies and reboost the International Space Station during its almost four-month… Continue reading
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Five Exoplanets
Orbiting Telescope Designed to Find Earth-Like Planets
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.… Continue reading