Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...
SETI6 年
Douglas Caldwell
Caldwell is a Co-Investigator on the Kepler Mission, the Instrument Scientist for the Kepler Mission. He works at the Kepler Science Office on the whole instrument/detector system. Just 20 years ago, ...
Organically Human on MSN9 个月
Scientists Discover a Planet That May Be Even More Habitable Than Earth
The discovery of Kepler-442b highlights the ongoing search for Earth 2.0. Scientists are constantly refining their methods ...
Stylist9 年
"It's Earth 2.0" What we know about new planet Kepler-452b
The water vapour would be lost from the planet forever," explained Kepler scientist Dr Doug Caldwell. "Kepler-452b could be experiencing now what the Earth will undergo more than a billion years ...
来自MSN6 个月
Kepler's sunspot sketches unravel the 400-year-old solar mystery
As reported by Science Alert, Kepler's precise drawings enabled astronomers to determine the Sun's position in its 11-year activity cycle. By examining the location of Kepler during the sketches ...
SETI11 年
Jeffrey Smith
Looking toward the future, Dr. Smith is involved with adapting the Kepler science processing algorithms for use with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satallite (TESS), a new NASA planet finding mission ...
The New York Times25 天
Max Kepler hopes to unlock more power and boost a Phillies outfield that struggled to slug
Max Kepler hit eight homers last season, the fewest he’s ever hit in a big-league season, which makes him an unlikely source to supply the Phillies’ outfield with more power in 2025.