Science news articles about 'kepler mission'

NASA's Kepler Mission will do more than look for earth-like planets. Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy, is part of a research team that will use the mission's ...

NASA's Kepler mission to seek other Earth-like planets is undergoing final preparations for liftoff Friday, March 6.

NASA's Kepler mission successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II at 10:49 p.m. EST (7:49 p.m. PST), Friday, March 6.

An in-depth look at astronomer Bill Borucki, principal investigator of NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission.

... for anyone to submit their name to be included on a DVD and rocketed into space as part of NASA's Kepler Mission, scheduled to launch in February 2009 from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test. The thermal vacuum test is part of a series of environmental tests the spacecraft will ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft is ready to be moved to the launch pad today and will soon begin a journey to search for worlds that could potentially host life.

Tomorrow morning, if all goes according to schedule, NASA will launch the Kepler mission, which according to noted astronomer Alan Boss in his new book, The Crowded Universe, is likely to discover ...

NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more ...

Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another star. Now, in an echo of science fiction ...

... our solar system, called exoplanets, so we really don't have a good idea of what the chances are for advanced life. That's where NASA's Kepler mission comes in.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Kepler is approximately 18 million kilometers (11 million miles) from Earth, and ... All systems are operating normally. Last week, the Kepler project team completed another download of ...

... domains. CoRoT's successors are already on their way: the NASA Kepler mission, a super CoRoT devoted to finding Earth-size and smaller exoplanets, was launched in March 2009. Even ...