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NASA’s next great space telescope is getting ready for launch
18 Feb 2026 20:19 GMT
… Space Telescope is positioned as NASA’s next major astrophysics … bound to any star. NASA projects that the telescope could … accessible to transit surveys like Kepler or TESS.
In addition, … planets in habitable zones.
NASA has contracted SpaceX to launch …
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Did NASA just find an Earth twin nearby or is this planet too cold for life? Know the truth
09 Feb 2026 12:07 GMT
… the truth (Image Source - NASA)
A planet that looks … Scientists analysing observations from NASA’s retired Kepler mission report a possible … work on data gathered during Kepler’s K2 mission, which … Future observations may come from NASA’s TESS mission or …
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NASA Telescope Discovers Nearby Planet With Deep Similarities to Earth
07 Feb 2026 20:13 GMT
… Journal Letters and highlighted by NASA, the rocky outpost orbits a … star, in a habitable zone, [Kepler-186f] is about four times … examining data gathered by the NASA Kepler space telescope in 2017. It …
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This High Schooler Found 1.5 Million Unknown Space Objects That NASA Missed
01 Feb 2026 17:05 GMT
… analyzing retired mission data from NASA, one 18-year-old high … began analyzing data collected by NASA's NEOWISE telescope, … of data on exoplanets the Kepler telescope collected during its lifetime … for these sorts of tasks. NASA's James Webb telescope …
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A possible ice-cold Earth discovered in the archives of the retired Kepler Space Telescope
30 Jan 2026 12:45 GMT
… mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in … of miniature eclipse—detected during Kepler's second mission, … by the successor to Kepler/K2, NASA's TESS ( … the archives of the retired Kepler Space Telescope (2026, January …
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Anyone can now hunt for exoplanets using NASA’s new tool
30 Jan 2026 03:14 GMT
… hunt for planets themselves.
NASA’s retired Kepler and currently-operational TESS … more than 3,000 exoplanets. Kepler’s strategy was to deeply … confirm 370 new exoplanets from Kepler data. The AI tool is … model was trained on both Kepler and TESS data. It can …
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NASA discovers new planet ‘remarkably similar to Earth’ in solar system
29 Jan 2026 17:21 GMT
… solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which … if you ever visited.
The Kepler Space Telescope was retired in … unlike our own Sun, and NASA has suggested that there are … likely to be much cooler.
NASA estimates that the surface temperature …
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NASA’s ExoMiner AI digs into TESS data to hunt exoplanets
28 Jan 2026 17:50 GMT
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NASA's ExoMiner AI trained on Kepler data, has … of these were found by NASA’s Kepler mission, which retired in … , previously used to validate Kepler discoveries has now been trained … on nearby stars, while Kepler peered a smaller region of …
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ExoMiner++: NASA turns to AI to speed up the search for Earth-like exoplanets
25 Jan 2026 12:24 GMT
… ExoMiner++, comes into the picture. NASA has now begun using ExoMiner … deep-learning system built by NASA to hunt for exoplanets … , learning from both older Kepler data and newer TESS observations … ideal targets for future study. NASA plans to refine the system …
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NASA AI Model That Found 370 Exoplanets Now Digs Into TESS Data
22 Jan 2026 20:05 GMT
… to data from NASA’s retired Kepler mission and NASA’s current TESS … validate 370 new exoplanets from Kepler data. Now, the team … NASA Ames who serves as the co-investigator for ExoMiner++.
Kepler … transiting nearby stars, while Kepler looked at a small patch …