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Scientists have detected what they say is the “strongest evidence yet” for the existence of extraterrestrial life, found on a ...

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As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

Scientists have detected unique chemical patterns similar to those produced by the Earth's algae and seaweed — raising the ...

As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

The exoplanetary system is twice as distant as any seen previously by Kepler, which found ... Later this decade NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope. Roman will find potentially ...

high-precision transit surveys like those constructed with NASA's Kepler and TESS missions, it's possible to gather such observations. These missions allow astronomers to study exoplanets that are ...

https://doi.org/10.1086/667603 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667603 ABSTRACT.The Kepler spacecraft has collected data of high photometric precision and ...

The Kepler telescope, launched in 2009 ... Ricker was at the time the principal investigator for a NASA mission, HETE-2, that watched the sky for gamma-ray bursts. Could that same kind of ...

Her ambivalence didn’t prevent her from becoming the project scientist of NASA’s Kepler mission. Since 2009, Kepler has been looking for planets outside our solar system where life might flourish.