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Kepler-22b: “This is a major milestone on the road to finding Earth’s twin”
When its last catalogue of exoplanet candidates was released in February, Nasa’s Kepler space observatory, launched in March 2009, first light in April 2009, had identified 1,235 planetary candidates – and 54 candidates within the habitable zone. The Kepler team have now identified 2,326 planet candidates – of those, 207 are approximately Earth-size, 680 are super Earth-size, 1,181 are [.
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Kepler finds rare multiple planetary system in 'habitable zone'
NASA's Kepler space telescope has succeeded in its mission to identify potentially-habitable exoplanets. Kepler has so far observed 156,000 stars in its field of vision and has identified no less than 1235 candidate planets that sit... Read Post
Update: NASA's Kepler Space Telescope May Extend Its Search for Alien Planets
Congressional funding for Kepler — which has identified 1,235 candidate alien planets to date and recently discovered the first exoplanet with two suns in its sky — is due to run out in November 2012, but an extension may be... Read Post
Kepler Telescope Finds Over 1,000 Planet Candidate
According to new numbers from scientists, NASA's Kepler observatory has identified some 1,235 transiting planet candidates since in launch in March 2009. Most intriguing in these new numbers are the 54 planets that fall within the t... Read Post