NEWS
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April 08, 2016
Mission Manager Update: Kepler spacecraft in emergency mode
During a scheduled contact on Thursday, April 7, mission operations engineers discovered that the Kepler spacecraft was in Emergency Mode.
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April 07, 2016
Planet hunting: The dark worlds
This month astronomers will use starlight to find planets that pass between us and the heart of our galaxy. But the search won't be easy– the technique, called microlensing, gives scientists only one shot at observing each planet before it's lost to space.
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March 30, 2016
NASA's Spitzer maps climate patterns on a super-Earth
Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet– a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours.
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March 29, 2016
NASA selects instrument team to build next-gen planet hunter
NASA has selected a team to build a new, cutting-edge instrument that will detect exoplanets by measuring the miniscule “wobbling” of stars.
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March 28, 2016
Investigating the mystery of migrating 'hot Jupiters'
How do some gas giant planets end up so feverishly close to their stars? NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope finds new clues.
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March 25, 2016
Rising Stars: NASA announces Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows for 2016
NASA has selected 36 fellows for its prestigious Einstein, Hubble and Sagan fellowships.
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March 21, 2016
Planet hunter breaks ground with supernovas
The Kepler telescope, known for finding exoplanets, caught the early flash of an exploding star for the first time.
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March 09, 2016
NASA's K2 mission: The Kepler space telescope's second chance to shine
A famous space telescope, crippled by a malfunction and restored to life by clever engineering, provides an unexpected bonanza of discoveries.
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March 02, 2016
Life or illusion? Avoiding ‘false positives’ in the search for living worlds
A new study from the University of Washington helps astronomers determine which exoplanets have a high probability of life, and which are false positives.
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February 26, 2016
NASA introduces new, wider set of eyes on the universe
With 100x Hubble's view, NASA's new astrophysics mission, the Wide Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), will help discover planets outside our solar system.
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