
Kepler is Beyond Repair

Kepler is Beyond Repair

To date, we have discovered 865 confirmed exoplanets orbiting distant stars. But a great mystery remains: how do these planets form?

Does the failure of reaction wheel #4 mean the end of the Kepler mission?

Some juicy exoplanet news!

When is an exoplanet not an exoplanet? When it’s a white dwarf…
The SETI Institute put on an insightful conference in Santa Clara last weekend, June 22nd through 24th.

Coming at you from the desk of the Director of the Morrison Planetarium, hand-picked stories in space and astronomy news.

Reporting from day three of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas…

Reptilian embryos, C. elegans in space and exoplanets galore—get ready for a wild Friday science news round-up!

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a Tatooine-like planet with two suns.
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