NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its Smallest'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance fro… By: nasaames Continue reading
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting Twin Suns [HD] – Video
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting Twin Suns [HD] Release Date: August 28, 2012 NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first transiting circumbinary system — multiple planets orbiting two suns — 4900 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus, proving that more than one planets can form and survive in orbit around a binary star. CREDIT NASA/JPL-Caltech/T Continue reading
NASA Ames Hosts Live Broadcast of Transit of Venus
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — News media and the public are invited to observe the transit of Venus broadcast live from atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, beginning at 3:04 p.m. PDT Tuesday, June 5, 2012 in the Exploration Center at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Continue reading