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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

04/16/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Kepler, NASA’s planet-finding spacecraft, about to run out of fuel

All good things must end. So it is with Kepler, the plucky space telescope that discovered thousands of planets despite significant malfunctions. NASA announced that the spacecraft will run out of fuel in just a few months, according to an article on Space.com. “Our current estimates are that Kepler’s tank will run dry within several […]

04/12/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Scientists discover 15 new planets, including one “super-Earth” that could harbor liquid water

Fifteen new planets were confirmed to be orbiting red dwarf stars near our solar system. As per a report that appeared in Science Daily, one of the newly-discovered worlds is a super-Earth that could have liquid water. The new exoplanets were located by researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). Under the aegis of […]

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