NASA releases Kepler Survey Catalog with hundreds of new planet candidates
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 06:52
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting in their star's habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of a rocky planet.