This 70mm frame shows the 50,162-pound Chandra X-ray Observatory before it was tilted upward for its release from the Space…
Kepler’s search for an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun
This artistic concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the…
Kepler-452b: Earth’s Bigger, Older Cousin
The first fully automated and uniform process of the entire Kepler data set yields increases planet candidate count by 521…
Kepler planet candidates by size as of July 2015.
Twelve new Kepler habitable zone planets less than twice the size of Earth surface
Of the 1,030 confirmed planets from Kepler, a dozen are less than twice the size of Earth and reside in…
Scale comparison of the Kepler-452 System and the solar system
The Douglas D-558-II “Skyrockets” were among the early transonic research airplanes like the X-1, X-4, X-5, and X-92A
