According to the report, this is the most comprehensive and detailed catalog release of candidate exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system, from Kepler’s first four years of data. It’s also the final catalog from the spacecraft’s view of ...
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Earth-Sized ‘Tatooine’ Planets Could Be Habitable
With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine in “Star Wars” looks like a parched, sandy desert world. In real life, thanks to observatories such as NASA’s Kepler space telescope, we know that two-star systems can indeed ...
Read More »Earth-like planet discovered just 219 light years away could host alien life
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet Kepler-1649 just 219 light-years away which could be a major step forward in the search for alien life, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Mail. This newly discovered world is only slightly larger than ...
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