Kepler News


Mission Press Releases

  • Stars Don't Obliterate Their Planets (Very Often)
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Thursday, June 6, 2013
    Posted on: 6/6/2013 9:47:09 PM PDT

  • NASA Kepler Scientist Honored by National Academy of Sciences
    NASA HQ - Monday, January 7, 2013
    Posted on: 1/8/2013 12:47:12 AM PDT

  • NASA'S Kepler Mission Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates
    NASA HQ - Monday, January 7, 2013
    Posted on: 1/7/2013 7:24:10 PM PDT

  • NASA's Kepler Completes Prime Mission, Begins Extended Mission
    Ames Research Center - Thursday, November 15, 2012
    Posted on: 11/15/2012 6:04:27 PM PDT

  • Citizen Scientists Discover Four-Star Planet with NASA Kepler
    NASA HQ - Tuesday, October 16, 2012
    Posted on: 10/16/2012 4:32:17 PM PDT

  • NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars
    Ames Research Center - Tuesday, August 28, 2012
    Posted on: 8/29/2012 12:31:17 AM PDT

  • Kepler: The Long Road to Other Worlds
    NASA ASK Magazine - Tuesday, August 21, 2012
    Posted on: 8/21/2012 3:01:09 PM PDT

  • Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal' Stars to Form
    NASA HQ - Wednesday, June 13, 2012
    Posted on: 6/13/2012 9:54:33 PM PDT

  • Kepler Telescope star data creates musical melody
    Georgia Institute of Technology - Tuesday, June 12, 2012
    Posted on: 6/13/2012 1:24:28 AM PDT

  • Study on Extrasolar Planet Orbits suggests that Our Solar System Structure is the Norm
    Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto - Sunday, April 15, 2012
    Posted on: 4/15/2012 7:25:27 PM PDT

  • NASA Extends Kepler Mission Through 2016
    Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. - Friday, April 6, 2012
    Posted on: 4/6/2012 3:05:29 PM PDT

  • NASA's Kepler Mission Awarded Mission Extension
    Ames Research Center - Wednesday, April 4, 2012
    Posted on: 4/4/2012 5:36:23 PM PDT

  • Kepler Explorer App Puts Distant Planets at Fingertips
    University of California Santa Cruz - Wednesday, April 4, 2012
    Posted on: 4/4/2012 5:27:18 PM PDT

  • Ball Aerospace Kepler Mission for NASA Awarded Aviation Week's Laureate Award
    Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. - Thursday, March 8, 2012
    Posted on: 3/9/2012 1:48:29 AM PDT

  • Space Foundation Honors NASA Kepler Mission
    Space Foundation - Wednesday, March 7, 2012
    Posted on: 3/7/2012 11:09:01 PM PDT

  • NASA's Kepler Announces 11 Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets
    Ames Research Center - Thursday, January 26, 2012
    Posted on: 1/26/2012 10:37:27 PM PDT

  • NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System
    Ames Research Center - Tuesday, December 20, 2011
    Posted on: 12/20/2011 6:12:28 PM PDT

  • NASA's Kepler Announcing Newly Confirmed Planets
    Ames Research Center - Monday, December 19, 2011
    Posted on: 12/20/2011 1:48:05 AM PDT

  • NASA's Kepler Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star
    - Monday, December 5, 2011
    Posted on: 12/5/2011 8:50:17 PM PDT

  • Super Earth-size Planet Confirmed Around Bright F6 Subgiant Star
    Ames Research Center - Friday, December 2, 2011
    Posted on: 12/3/2011 12:15:24 AM PDT

    		• Mission Status Releases

  • NASA Kepler Mission Manager Update 15 May 2013
    NASA HQ - May 15, 2013
    Posted on: 5/15/2013 8:28:39 PM PDT

  • NASA Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconference Today
    NASA HQ - May 15, 2013
    Posted on: 5/15/2013 5:25:07 PM PDT

  • Kepler Enters and Exits Safe Mode
    Ames Research Center - May 9, 2013
    Posted on: 5/9/2013 8:06:54 PM PDT

  • NASA Kepler Mission Manager Update 29 April 2013
    AMASE 2009 - April 29, 2013
    Posted on: 4/30/2013 12:13:38 AM PDT

  • NASA Kepler Mission Manager Update 29 March 2013
    Ames Research Center - April 2, 2013
    Posted on: 4/3/2013 2:30:32 AM PDT

  • Kepler Mission Manager Update: Kepler Returns to Science Mode
    Ames Research Center - January 29, 2013
    Posted on: 1/30/2013 3:33:05 AM PDT

  • NASA Kepler Mission Update 17 January 2013
    Ames Research Center - January 17, 2013
    Posted on: 1/17/2013 11:48:58 PM PDT

  • ROSES-12 Amendment 23: New opportunity via Appendix D.13: Kepler Participating Scientist Program
    NASA HQ - November 27, 2012
    Posted on: 11/28/2012 12:04:16 AM PDT

  • NASA Kepler Mission Manager Update 26 October 2012
    Ames Research Center - October 26, 2012
    Posted on: 10/26/2012 10:01:39 PM PDT

  • NASA Kepler Mission Manager Update 15 October 2012
    Ames Research Center - October 16, 2012
    Posted on: 10/16/2012 4:22:39 PM PDT

  • NASA ROSES-12 Amendment 16: Final text for Appendix D.7, The Kepler Guest Observer Program
    NASA Science Mission Directorate - October 4, 2012
    Posted on: 10/4/2012 7:33:13 PM PDT

  • 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View
    Ames Research Center - August 27, 2012
    Posted on: 8/27/2012 4:13:17 PM PDT

  • NASA Kepler Mission Manager Update 1 August 2012
    Ames Research Center - August 1, 2012
    Posted on: 8/1/2012 9:33:18 PM PDT

  • Kepler Mission Manager Update 24 July 2012
    Ames Research Center - July 24, 2012
    Posted on: 7/24/2012 5:33:52 PM PDT

  • NASA Kepler Mission Manager Update 20 July 2012
    - July 20, 2012
    Posted on: 7/20/2012 10:27:57 PM PDT

  • NASA Kepler Mission Manager Update 10 July 2012
    Ames Research Center - July 11, 2012
    Posted on: 7/12/2012 1:26:51 AM PDT

  • Kepler Mission Manager Update 15 May 2012
    Ames Research Center - May 21, 2012
    Posted on: 5/21/2012 5:55:22 PM PDT

  • Exoplanets in Multi-body Systems in the Kepler Era
    Planetary Exploration Newsletter - April 30, 2012
    Posted on: 4/30/2012 12:55:45 PM PDT

  • NASA's Kepler Releases New Catalog With 2,321 Planet Candidates
    Ames Research Center - March 2, 2012
    Posted on: 3/3/2012 2:50:15 AM PDT

  • Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler, III: Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - February 27, 2012
    Posted on: 2/28/2012 3:15:11 AM PDT

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