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Kepler Space Telescope
It was only in the last few years that we could fully grasp how many other planets there might be beyond our solar system. Some 64 million miles or 104 kilometers from Earth, the Kepler Space Telesco…
The Kepler space telescope, which allowed humanity to see huge numbers of other planets that could support life, is about to die. The spacecraft probably only has enough fuel left for a few months, N…
It’s a huge discovery which places the current number of alien planets confirmed close to 3,600. The discovery is important for astronomers to map the solar systems of the Milky Way. Astronomers expl…
Scientists Discover “Earth 2.0″ Via Kepler Space Telescope. Since it’s launch on March 7, 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has been busy collecting data about our galaxy with an interest in finding h…
In the hunt for life beyond the Solar System, several things are key. First, we need to find worlds that are similar in size to our own. Second, they need to be close enough for us to study. And thir…
A recent study soon to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, based upon analysis of data taken from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, has found that our Milky Way Galaxy could be host to over 4 bil…
In the hunt for life beyond the Solar System, several things are key. First, we need to find worlds that are similar in size to our own. Second, they need to be close enough for us to study. And thir…
The most mysterious star in the Milky Way is at it again. Astronomers are sounding the alarms Friday as telescope observations detect unusual light patterns coming from a distant star By Ma…
A mysterious star that some astronomers believe could harbor an "alien megastructure,” continues to confound researchers. Over the past year, scientists have hypothesized that everything from a …
This diagram shows the transit zone our planet will sweep through when it passes in front of the sun; any intelligent extraterrestrials looking at our sun living in a star system that falls within t…
The hunt for extraterrestrial life — of any kind, including lowly, long-dead microbes — is lofty enough. But the hunt for intelligent civilizations that could be looking for us in return? It&…
The faraway star KIC 8462852 has been a fervent topic of debate over the last few months, ever since folks at SETI proposed that maybe—just maybe—a there was a giant alien megastructure around…
By www.newscientist.com 1-15-16 The weirdest star in the cosmos just got a lot weirder. And yes, it might be aliens. Known as KIC 8462852, or Tabby’s star, it has been baffling astronomers fo…
The Mysterious Star KIC 8462852 By Seth Shostak www.seti.org 10-27-15 The SETI Institute is following up on the possibility that the stellar system KIC 8462852 might be home to an advanced ci…
Tweet By Sarah Kaplan The Washington Post 10-17-15 It was kind of unbelievable that it was real data," said Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian. "We were scratching our head…
Tweet The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy By Ross Andersen The Atlantic 10-13-15 Astronomers have spotted a strange mess of objects whirling around a distant star. Scientists who search for ext…
Tweet By Fox News 10-15-15 A distant star is getting a lot of attention from astronomers – possibly as a sign that alien life is out there. The star KIC 8462852 was discovered through Planet…
