earth like planets

Hey now this is cool, the discovery of eight very earth-like planets has been announced So what are the details? Astronomers announced today that they have found eight new planets in the “Goldilocks” zone of their stars, orbiting at a distance where liquid water can exist on the planet’s surface. This doubles the number of … Read more

OK, to follow up from my previous post, in the excitement I got the numbers wrong, so here are the real numbers … First the facts … Kepler has been staring at one part of the sky, continuously looking at 156,000 stars, we have 100-400 Billion in our galaxy, its a truly tiny sample. Keplar … Read more

The news is all over the place, so I’d be surprised if you don’t know, But Kepler, NASA’s planet hunting satellite, has a vast river of new information flowing from it … as reported in the New York Times science section … In a long-awaited announcement, scientists operating NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting satellite reported Wednesday that … Read more