What a comeback: Revived Kepler spacecraft finds its first new planet
Saturday, December 20, 2014 - 23:00
in Astronomy & Space
It doesn’t pay to bet against Kepler. Even though the NASA spacecraft was hobbled a year and a half ago, the battered telescope has still managed to find a super-Earth. At 20,000 miles across, the newly discovered planet is 2.5 times as wide as Earth and holds about 12 times the mass.