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NASA retires Kepler telescope after nine years of exoplanet hunts and discoveries
Tech2 News Staff •Kepler's findings have given a glimpse into roughly 200,000 potentially habitable world in Earth's sky.
NASA's Kepler Telescope wakes up from its slumber, back to planet-hunting duty
Ians •NASA in April launched another planet-hunting spacecraft, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
Technical glitch forces SpaceX to postpone its launch of NASA's exoplanet hunting TESS satellite
•SpaceX halted the countdown a little more than two hours before its Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to carry the TESS, into orbit.
NASA to launch its TESS Exoplanet Mission in a SpaceX Falcon 9: Here is how you can watch it live
Tech2 News Staff •NASA's TESS spacecraft is expected to lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:32 pm Eastern Time which is 4:02 am (Tuesday) in India.
Earth-sized planets of TRAPPIST-1 have the potential of holding 250 times more water than Earth
Ians •The form that water would take on TRAPPIST-1 planets would depend on the amount of heat they receive from their star.
NASA's Kepler space telescope makes discovery using machine learning from Google
•NASA will announce the discovery made by Kepler, which has been searching for alien worlds since 2009, on 14 December.
NASA's Kepler telescope used to identify 20 new potentially habitable exoplanets
•The list includes several planets that orbit stars like our Sun.
Scientists find six exocomets using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope
Ians •The discovery marks the first time that an object as small as a comet has been detected using transit photometry.
Sun-like stars tend to calm down after a violent youth allowing evolution of life, claims study
Ians •The findings published online in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society showed that older stars drop in activity quickly.
Researchers and musicians translate the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system into a musical instrument
Tech2 News Staff •The repeating pattern of transits used to discover the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system has been translated into a melody.