Neighborhood Watch: New NASA Mission Will Propel Detailed Investigations of Nearby Exoplanets
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 16:00
in Astronomy & Space
NASA’s Kepler mission has been a smash hit. It has discovered thousands of probable exoplanets--worlds orbiting stars other than the sun--more than 100 of which have already been vetted and confirmed. Many of those planets are among the smallest , most Earth-size planets known: of the 25 smallest-diameter exoplanets discovered to date, all but one were spotted by Kepler. [More]