The amazing discoveries from the Kepler mission just keep on coming. Astronomers have now found more real-life versions of Tatooine, Luke Skywalker’s home planet in the “Star Wars” saga. These worlds have twin suns that rise and set each day as opposed to just one. These two new exoplanets are also very close to the [...]
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Wow, the news from astronomers just seems to get more and more exciting with each passing day. Two newly-discovered, distant planets orbiting a star 950 light-years from our own planet Earth are the smallest alien worlds yet found, astronomers announced yesterday. One of the two planets is actually smaller than Earth. These planets are orbiting [...]
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It seems like with each passing week we get closer and closer to answering the eternal question of whether or not we are alone in the universe. Another giant step leap forward has just been made, as NASA‘s Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the discovery of the first alien world in its host star’s habitable zone, [...]
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NASA has discovered two new planets orbiting the same star in the Milky Way using the Kepler Space Telescope. The planets are about the same size as Saturn. According to William Borucki, Kepler Mission Science Principal Investigator at the NASA Ames Research Center, this is the “first discovery of multiple planets orbiting the same star.” [...]
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