Will Kepler find habitable moons?

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 08:49 in Astronomy & Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 movies a team of scientists led by Dr David Kipping of University College London thinks that they may even find habitable ‘exomoons` too. The new results will appear in a paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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