Project News

Kepler-14b, Supergiant, is orbiting one of the stars in a binary star system

Kepler • July 20th, 2011

Kepler-14b is a planet 8 times more massive than Jupiter, orbiting one of the stars in a binary star system. The planet has a short orbital period of just 7 days, while the two...

Hubble Space Telescope's One Millionth Science Observation is of Kepler-2b

Kepler • July 4th, 2011

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope logged its one millionth science observation — a search for water in an exoplanet's atmosphere 1,000 light-years away. Hubble's millionth exposure...

NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest

Kepler • June 20th, 2011

The Pleiades supercomputer plays a crucial role in Kepler data analysis. Pleiades now contains 23,296 Intel(R) Xeon(R) quad- and hex-core processors (111,104 cores in 182 racks)...

NASA’s Kepler Yields the Next Harvest: A bounty of findings delivered at the 218th Meeting of the AAS in Boston

Kepler • May 25th, 2011

The Kepler Team had 50 presentations at the 218th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Boston, 2011 May 22-26.

How to Learn a Star’s True Age

Kepler • May 23rd, 2011

For many movie stars, their age is a well-kept secret. The same is true of stars in space. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we...

Kepler’s Astounding Haul of Multiple Planet Systems

Kepler • May 23rd, 2011

Within just the first four months of NASA’s Kepler spacecraft data collection, astronomers have found evidence for more than 1,200 planetary candidates. Of those, 408 reside in...

Kepler-10c and a New Method to Validate Planets

Kepler • May 23rd, 2011

Kepler has discovered a second planet in the Kepler-10 star system: Kepler-10c with a radius of 2.2 times that of Earth's, and it orbits the star every 45 days.

WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids

Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer • April 14th, 2011

Astronomers across the globe can now sift through hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and asteroids collected in the first bundle of data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared...

Kepler Listens to an Orchestra of Solar-Type Stars

Kepler • April 7th, 2011

An international team of asteroseismologists, led by the University of Birmingham, has used data from the NASA Kepler Mission to sample the ‘stellar music’ of 500 stars similar...

Kepler Discovery of a Unique Triply Eclipsing Triple Star

Kepler • April 7th, 2011

Star HD 181068 , a 7th magnitude star almost visible to the naked eye is in reality a complex triple system in which three stars undergo mutual eclipses as each of the stars...