Chronology of the NASA Kepler and K2
Missions through News Items
(September 2008 through September 2016)
Sep 6, 2016: To
boldly go: How 'Star Trek inspired NASA's Planet Hunters
Aug
24, 2016: Thomas
Barclay: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
Aug 12, 2016: Kepler
Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster
Aug 12,
2016: Photometer
Update
Aug 8, 2016: K2
Mission Campaign 10, the Kepler Photometer, and Mission duration.
Aug
3, 2016: Astronomers
Help Focus Research in the Search for Another Earth
July 18,
2016: The
62 new K2 planets brings total number of K2 planets to 127
June 20, 2016: NASA's
K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star
June 13, 2016: New
Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns
May 17, 2016: Kepler-223
System: Clues to Planetary Migration
May 11, 2016: K2
mission helps demystify largest unnamed object in our solar system
May 10, 2016: Kepler
Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered
May
4, 2016: REDDIT
Science AMA Series: NASA Kepler Mission*
May 3, 2016 Mission
Manager Q&A: Recovering The Kepler Spacecraft To Hunt For
Exoplanets Again
April 21, 2016: William
Borucki receives The 2016 Franklin Institute Bower Award and Prize
for Achievement in Science*
Apr 15, 2016: Mission
Manager Update: Kepler Remains Stable as Health Check Continues
Apr 11, 2016: Kepler
goes into Emergency Mode ...and recovers*
Apr 7, 2016: Searching
for Far Out and Wandering Worlds (feature)
Mar 21, 2016: Caught
For The First Time: The Early Flash Of An Exploding Star*
Mar 10, 2016: Mission
Manager Update: K2 continues to shine
Mar 9, 2016: NASA's
K2 mission: The Kepler Space Telescope's Second Chance to Shine
(feature)
Jan 8, 2016: K2
and Kepler at AAS*
Dec 17, 2015: NASA
and Star Wars: The Connections Are Strong in This One (feature)
Dec 15, 2015: Meanwhile,
in a galaxy not so far, far away… (feature)
Dec 10, 2015: NASA
Telescopes Detect Jupiter-Like Storm on Small Star (feature)
Nov 24, 2015: Strange
Star Likely Swarmed by Comets (feature)
Nov 10, 2015: AAS
presents Borucki with Carl Sagan Award*
Nov 6, 2015: More
on K2SciCon*
Nov 2, 2015: K2SciCon
Begins*
Oct 23, 2015: Top
20 Intriguing Exoplanets*
Oct 20, 2015: Most
Earth-Like Worlds Have Yet to Be Born, According to Theoretical Study
(feature)
Oct 21, 2015: NASA’s
K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini “Planet” (Ames)
Oct 15, 2015: William
Borucki Receives SETI Institutes's 2015 Drake Award*
Sep 15, 2015: Kepler:
A Giant Leap for Exoplanet Studies*
Aug 7, 2015: HENAAC
Scientist of the Year: Elisa Quintana*
Jul 23, 2015: Kepler-452b:
Earth's Bigger, Older Cousin (Briefing Materials)
Jul 23, 2015: NASA’s
Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth Release
15-156
Jul 23, 2015: Finding
Another Earth (JPL)
Jul 23, 2015: Searching
for Habitable Worlds (Ames)
Jul 23, 2015: Soaking
up the Rays of a Sun-like Star - Artistic Concept (image)
Jul 23, 2015: Earth's
Bigger, Older Cousin -- Artistic Concept (image)
Jul 23, 2015: Sizes
of Kepler Planet Candidates, July 2015 (image)
Jul 23, 2015: Kepler
Planet Candidates, July 2015 (image)
Jul 23, 2015: Twelve
New Small Kepler Habitable ZonA Kepler's Dozen: Small Habitable Zone
Planets Candidates (image)
Jul 23, 2015: A
Kepler's Dozen: Small Habitable Zone Planets (image)
Jul 23, 2015: Kepler-452
and the Solar System (image)
Jul 20, 2015: Media Advisory M15-110
NASA
Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discoveries
Jul 9, 2015: NASA
Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto (feature)
Jul 1, 2015: Kepler's
Borucki Retires after Five Decades at NASA
Jun 17, 2015: Measuring
the Mass of a Mars-size Exoplanet (Ames)
Jun 17, 2015: Kepler-138b:
a Mars-size exoplanet, now with a measured mass: Mars-size
Kepler-138b Gets a Mass (image)
May 20, 2015: NASA
Spacecraft Capture Rare, Early Moments of Baby Supernovae (Ames)
May 14, 2015: Kepler
Observes Neptune Dance with Its Moons: Kepler
Observes Neptune Dance with Its Moons (video)
May 14, 2015: Mission
Manager Update: K2 in Campaign 5
May 12, 2015: Kepler's
Six Years In Science (and Counting)* (+
image)
Apr 21, 2015: NASA’s
NExSS Coalition to Lead Search for Life on Distant Worlds
(feature)
Apr 7, 2015: The
Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water (JPL)
Apr 2, 2015: Mission Manager Update:
K2
in Campaign 4
Mar 25, 2015: Kepler
team wins 2015 National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Current
Achievement (Ames)
Mar 23, 2015: Kepler
Wins National Air and Space Museum Trophy (Ames)
Feb 24, 2015: Kepler
visionary William Borucki inducted as a NASA Ames Fellow*
Jan. 30, 2015: NASA
Supercomputer Assists the Hunt for Exomoons (Ames)
Jan 28, 2015: Astronomers
Discover Ancient System with Five Small Planets: Astronomers
Discover Ancient System with Five Small Planets (Ames)
Jan 28, 2015: Kepler-444:
An Ancient System with Five Planets (image)
Jan 21, 2015: Astronomers Discover
First Multiple-Planet System From K2
Jan 16, 2015: Three
Nearly Earth-Size Planets Found Orbiting Nearby Star*
Jan 6, 2015: NASA’s
Kepler Marks 1,000th Exoplanet Discovery, Uncovers More Small Worlds
in Habitable Zones Release 15-004
Jan 6, 2015: NASA
Kepler's Hall of Fame: Small Habitable Zone Exoplanets (image)
Jan 6, 2015: Kepler
Planet Candidates, January 2015 (image)
Dec 22, 2014: NASA
Takes Giant Leaps on the Journey to Mars, Eyes Our Home Planet and
the Distant Universe, Tests Technologies and Improves the Skies Above
in 2014 (Release 14-331)
Dec 18, 2014: NASA’s
Kepler Reborn, Makes First Exoplanet Find of New Mission: NASA’s
Kepler Reborn, Makes First Exoplanet Find of New Mission—Release
14-335
Dec 18, 2014: Reborn
Kepler Can Still Find Planets (image)
Dec 16, 2014: Mission
Manager Update: Mission Manager Update: K2
Campaign 3 Underway
Dec 16, 2014: Comet
Siding Spring Passes Through K2's Field-of-View (image)
Nov 6, 2014: Kepler
Scientist hangs out with Interstellar cast members*
Oct 27, 2014: NASA's
Planet-hunting Kepler and K2 Missions Take Your Questions on Reddit
(Ames)
Oct 4, 2014: Kepler
Scientist Elisa Quintana receives the Lupe Ontiveros Dream Award*
Sep 24, 2014: NASA
Telescopes Find Clear Skies and Water Vapor on Exoplanet Release
14-255
Sep 24, 2014: A
Sunny Outlook for 'Weather' on Exoplanets (image)
Sep 23, 2014: Seeing
Starlight Through a Planet's Rim
Sep 23, 2014: Mission Manager Update:
C1
Data on the Ground; C2 Underway
Sep 23, 2014: K2
Campaign 0 "Postage Stamp" (image)
Sep 18, 2014: Advances
in Exoplanet Science from Kepler:
Sep 2, 2014: Exploring
exoplanet populations with NASA’s Kepler Mission*
Aug 14, 2014: NASA
Awards ceremony keynote speaker is Kepler PI, Bill Borucki*
Aug 8, 2014: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: K2
collecting data
Jul 23, 2014: Kepler-93b—The
Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World's Size (JPL/Spitzer)
Jul 23, 2014: Gauging
an Alien World's Size (image)
Jul 21, 2014: Astronomers
Discover Transiting Exoplanet with Longest Known Year (Ames)
Jul 21, 2014: Kepler-421b:
Transiting Exoplanet with Longest Known Year (image)
Jul 21, 2014: Exploring
exoplanet populations with NASA’s Kepler Mission*
Jun 25, 2014: Kepler
K2 Mission Planning for Observing Fields 4 and 5*
Jun 2, 2014: Astronomers
Confounded By Massive Rocky World: Astronomers
Confounded By Massive Rocky World (Ames)
May 30, 2014: Kepler
Begins K2 Mission Field 1 Observing*
May 16, 2014: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: K2
Has Been Approved!
May 2, 2014: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: Leadership Change
Apr 17, 2014: First
Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone'
: NASA's
Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable
Zone' Release 14-111
Apr 17, 2014: Kepler-186
and the Solar System (image)
Apr 17, 2014: Kepler-186f,
the First Earth-size Planet in the Habitable Zone (image)
Mar 10, 2014: Art
of Discovery*
Mar 7, 2014: Kepler
Team receives the National Space Club's Goddard Trophy*
Mar 6, 2014: Kepler's
5th Anniversary: Kepler
Marks Five Years in Space (Ames)
Feb 26, 2014: NASA's
Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds (Ames)
Feb 26, 2014: Digital
press kit - Kepler Planet Bonanza
Feb 26, 2014: NASA's
Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds Release
14-059
Feb 26, 2014: Exoplanet
Discoveries (image)
Feb 26, 2014: Sizes
of Known Exoplanets (image)
Feb 25, 2014: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: Loss
of a Science Module
Feb 14, 2014: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: K2
Spacecraft Operation Tests Continue
Feb 6, 2014: National
Space Club Honors Kepler's Planet Hunters Release 14-044
Feb 4, 2014: Kepler
Finds a Very Wobbly Planet: Kepler
Finds a Very Wobbly Planet (Ames)
Jan 9, 2014: PBS
NOVA: “Alien Planets Revealed”*
Jan 6, 2014: NASA
Kepler Provides Insight About Enigmatic But Ubiquitous Planets, Five
New Rocky Planets (Ames)
Jan 6, 2014: Kepler
Planet Candidates, January 2014 (image)
Jan 7, 2014: Kepler
at American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meeting*
Dec 4, 2013: Two-Wheel
Kepler Mission Invited to 2014 Senior Review*
Dec 11, 2013: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: Invited
to 2014 Senior Review
Nov 26, 2013: Kepler's
Second Light: How K2 Will Work
Nov 26, 2013: NASA
Kepler's Second Light (image)
Nov 25, 2013: A
Sunny Outlook for Kepler's Second Light (Life?)*
Nov 4, 2013: NASA
Kepler Results Usher in a New Era of Astronomy Release 13-323
Nov 4, 2013: Size
of Planet Candidates - November 2013 (image)
Nov 4, 2013: Kepler's
Planet Candidates, November 2013 (image)
Oct 30, 2013: Kepler-78b:
first Earth-size planet with measured Earth-mass: Scientists
Discover the First Earth-Sized Rocky Planet
Oct 29, 2013: Kepler-78b:
First Earth-Sized Rocky Planet (image)
Oct 23, 2013: President
Barack Obama Recognizes NASA Employees' Public Service
Oct 23, 2013: President
Barack Obama Congratulates William Borucki (image)
Oct 18, 2013: Deviant
spin of a red giant star: A
Giant Misalignment in a Multiple Planet System
Oct 14, 2013: Kepler-64b:
Four Star Planet (image)
Oct 1, 2013: Non-essential
Kepler Operations Shut Down:
Sep 30, 2013: NASA
Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds on Exotic World Release
13-303
Sep 30, 2013: Partially
Cloudy Skies on Kepler-7b (Artist's Concept) (image)
Sep 30, 2013: NASA
Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds on Exotic World (Spitzer)
Sep 13, 2013: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: Response
to Call for Ideas
Sep 4, 2013: [INFOGRAPHIC]
Precision Pointing: It's a Matter of Scale
Aug 29, 2013: 14
new Kepler planets bring total count to 150*
Aug 22, 2013: Kepler
finds stars’ flickers reveal the gravity at their surface*
Aug 19, 2013: MIT
team discovers an exoplanet that orbits its star in 8.5 hours*
Aug 19, 2013: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: Pointing
Test Results
Aug 15, 2013: NASA
Ends Attempts to Fully Recover Kepler Spacecraft, Potential New
Missions Considered*
Aug 5, 2013: Video
of Kepler Symposium Now Available*
Aug 2, 2013: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: Pointing
Test
Aug 2, 2013: Soliciting
Community Input for Alternate Science Investigations for the Kepler
Spacecraft*
Jul 29, 2013: Second
Kepler Science Conference, Nov. 4-8, 2013*
Jul 24, 2013: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: Initial
Recovery Tests
Jul 18, 2013: Kepler
Mission Manager Update: Recovery Begins*
Jul 17, 2013: In
the Zone: How Scientists Search for Habitable Planets
Jul 3, 2013: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: Preparing
for Recovery
Jun 26, 2013: First
Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered
Jun 7, 2013: Kepler Mission Manager
Update - 503
New Planet Candidates
Jun 6, 2013: Stars
Don't Eat Their Young Migrating Planets*
Jun 4, 2013: All
Six Planets Known to Orbit Kepler-11 Have Low Densities*
Jun 2, 2013: Kepler's
eclipsing binary stars*
May 31, 2013: 1,924
new KOIs*
May 21, 2013: Mission
Manager Update: Point Rest State
May 15, 2013: NASA
Hosts Kepler Spacecraft Status Teleconference Today*
May 15, 2013: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
May 13, 2013: New
Method of Finding Planets Scores its First Discovery*
May 9, 2013: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
May 1, 2013: The
Sun is not an unusually quiet star*
Apr 29, 2013: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
Apr 18, 2013: Kepler's
Smallest Habitable Zone Planets;
Digital
press kit - Kepler-62 and Kepler-69 System
Apr 18, 2013: Kepler-69c:
Super-Venus (image)
Apr 18, 2013: Kepler-69
and the Solar System (image)
Apr 18, 2013: Kepler-62
and the Solar System (image)
Apr 18, 2013: Relative
Sizes of Kepler Habitable Zone Planets (April 2013) (image)
Apr 18, 2013: Kepler-62e
(image)
Apr 18, 2013: Kepler-62f
with 62e as Morning Star (image)
Apr 18, 2013: Kepler-62f:
Small Habitable Zone World (image)
Mar 29, 2013: Planet
Hunters discovery: PH1b (Kepler-64b*
Mar 29, 2013: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
Mar 6, 2013: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
Feb 20, 2013: Kepler-37b
NASA's
Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System
Feb 21, 2013: A
Moon-size Line Up (image)
Feb 20, 2013: A
Tiny Planet (image)
Feb 13, 2013: Planetrise
(image)
Feb 7, 2013: The
Occurrence Rate of Small Planets around Small Stars*
Feb 6, 2013: Red
Dwarf Planet (image)
Jan 29, 2013: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: Kepler
Returns to Science Mode
Jan 22, 2013: Mission
Manager Update – Spacecraft in Wheel Rest Safe Mode*
Jan 10, 2013: NASA's
Kepler Mission Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates
Jan 7, 2013: Announcing
461 New Kepler Planet Candidates: Kepler
Planet Candidates, January 2013 (image)
Jan 7, 2013: Kepler
Planet Candidates, January 2013—(Image; sizes)
Jan 7, 2013: Kepler
Principal Investigator William Borucki 2013 Receives the 2013 Henry
Draper Medal from National Academy of Sciences*
Nov 27, 2012: Kepler
Participating Scientist Program Announcement*
Nov 20, 2012: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
Nov 14, 2012: Kepler
Completes Prime Mission and Begins Extended Mission*
Nov 14, 2012: Kepler
Timeline
Oct 26, 2012: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
Oct 18, 2012: Extrasolar
Planets Featured at American Astronomical Society's DPS Conference*
Oct 18, 2012: Revisiting
exoplanet TrES-2 (Kepler-1b)*
Oct 15, 2012: NASA
- Citizen Scientists Discover Four-Star Planet with NASA Kepler
Sep 17, 2012: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
Sep 12, 2012: Kepler
Team Mourns the Passing of the Original Kepler Deputy PI, David Koch*
Aug 28, 2012: Kepler-47 NASA's
Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars;
Orbiting
in the Habitable Zone of Two Suns (image); Sharing
the Light of Two Suns (image); Two
Planets of Kepler-47 (image)
Aug 23, 2012: The
Transit Timing Variation (TTV) Planet-finding Technique Begins to
Flower: 41
New Planets in 20 Star Systems (image)
Aug 22, 2012: NASA
- 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View
Aug 20, 2012: Kepler-38:
the Galaxy's Count of Binary Stars with Planets is Increasing*
Aug 13, 2012: Kepler:
The Long Road to Other Worlds*
Jul 28, 2012: Kepler
Team receives the Vision to Reality Award*
Jul 25, 2012: A
far-off solar system*
Jul 24, 2012: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
Jul 20, 2012: Mission
Manager Update
Jul 20, 2012: Kepler
Symposium at University of California, Berkeley*
Jul 10, 2012: Mission
Manager Update
Jul 9, 2012: Kepler
Science Team to Receive ASP Maria & Eric Muhlman Award*
Jul 2, 2012: Charbonneau
& Seager Awarded Sackler Prize*
Jun 23, 2012: Fifth
Annual Workshop of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium*
Jun 21, 2012: Alien
World Looms Large in its Neighbor World's Sky: Astronomers
Discover Planetary Odd Couple
Jun 19, 2012: NASA'S
Pleiades Supercomputer Gets A Little More Oomph*
Jun 13, 2012: Small
planets do not need metal-rich stars*
Jun 7, 2012: AAS
Student Virtual Forum: remotely attend the "Exoplanet Census
from Kepler" session*
Jun 5, 2012: Our
Local Transiting Planet: Venus: Light
Curve of a Planet Transiting Its Star (Animation)
May 18, 2012: NASA's
Kepler Detects Potential Evaporating Planet Candidate (Ames)
May 18, 2012: Disintegrating
Super Mercury-size Planet (image)
May 15, 2012: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
May 13, 2012: Small
Planets Don't Need Stars with Heavy Metal Content to Form Release
12-45AR
May 10, 2012: A
Study of 63 Hot Jupiter Systems*
Apr 24, 2012: Earth-based
Observations Lead to Planet Candidates in Habitable Zones*
Apr 23, 2012: Almost
All of Kepler's Multiple-planet Candidates Are Planets*
Apr 6, 2012: Barbara
A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes*
Apr 5, 2012: Kepler
Explorer app puts distant planets at your fingertips*
Apr 4, 2012: NASA
Approves Kepler Mission Extension*
Apr 1, 2012: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
Mar 22, 2012: The
Ones Have It: Kepler
Mission Manager Update
Mar 21, 2012: Possible
Disintegrating Short-Period Super-Mercury*
Mar 16, 2012: Kepler
Mission Planet Candidates, a Family Portrait (image)
Mar 14, 2012: Compact
Planetary System (image)
Mar 8, 2012: The
Women of Kepler Mission*
Mar 8, 2012: Kepler
Mission Wins 2012 Aviation Week Laureate Award*
Mar 7, 2012: NASA
Kepler Mission To Receive John L. "Jack" Swigert Jr. Award*
Mar 6, 2012: Happy
Birthday Kepler*
Mar 2, 2012: NASA's
Kepler Releases New Catalog- 2,321 Planet Candidates
Mar 2, 2012: Kepler
Planet Candidates by Size, Feb. 27, 2012
Feb 28, 2012: 1,091
New Kepler Planet Candidates*
Feb 15, 2012: Black
History Month Feature: Discussion With John Johnson*
Feb 10, 2012: Kepler Mission Manager
Update: 11
new systems, 26 more planets
Feb 10, 2012: Kepler's
Transiting Planet Systems (image)
Feb 6, 2012: Kepler
Team Mourns the Loss of Janice Voss
(Image: Janice
Voss with Kepler Star Field)
Jan 26, 2012: NASA's
Kepler Announces 11 Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets
Jan 26, 2012: Kepler's
Planetary Systems' Orbits (animation)
Jan 12, 2012: The
Kepler-35 System (image)
Jan 11, 2012: KOI-961:
A Mini-Planetary System*
Jan 11, 2012: Kepler
Discovery Establishes New Class of Planetary System;
NASA's
Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets;
'Honey
I Shrunk the Planetary System' (image); Mini
Planetary System (image)
Jan 11, 2012: NASA
Discovers New Double-Star Planet Systems
Jan 10, 2012: A
New Class of Planetary Systems (image); Sizing
Up Exoplanets (image)
Dec 20, 2011: Kepler-20
system: 5 planets including two that are Earth-size*
Dec 19, 2011: Earth-class
Planets Line Up (image); Artist's
Concept of Kepler-20f (image); Artist's
Concept of Kepler-20e (image)
Dec 11, 2011: Kepler
Planet Sizes (image)
Dec 5, 2011: Kepler-22b:
Closer to Finding an Earth (image)
Dec 5, 2011: Kepler-22b,
our first planet in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star;
Digital
press kit - 2011 Kepler-22b and 2011 Kepler Science Conference
Dec 5, 2011: Kepler-22b
- Comfortably Circling within the Habitable Zone (image)
Dec 5, 2011: Digital
press kit - Kepler-20 System
Nov 30, 2011: Kepler-21b
discovery*
Nov 4, 2011: Discovery
of Kepler-17b*
Oct 20, 2011: Bird's
Eye View of the Kepler-16 System (image)
Oct 4, 2011: Discovery
of Kepler-18b, c, and d*
Sep 28, 2011: NASA's
Kepler Mission Depicted in Dell’Osso Family Farm Corn Maze*
Sep 18, 2011: Where
the Sun Sets Twice (image)
Sep 15, 2011: NASA's
Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars
Sep 15, 2011: Kepler-16b
News Conference Digital Press Kit
Sep 15, 2011: Kepler-16b:
In the Light of Two Suns (image)
Sep 14, 2011: The
turbulent lives of stars"
Sep 13, 2011: NASA
to Announce Kepler Discovery at Media Briefing*
Sep 8, 2011: Invisible
World Discovered*
Aug 12, 2011: NASA’s
Kepler Mission Announces Next Data Release to Public Archive*
Aug 11, 2011: Alien
World is Blacker than Coal*
Jul 25, 2011: Gemini
Image Captures Elegant Beauty of Planetary Nebula Discovered by
Amateur Astronomer*
Jul 20, 2011: Kepler-14b,
Supergiant, is orbiting one of the stars in a binary star system*
Jul 4, 2011: Hubble
Space Telescope's One Millionth Science Observation is
of Kepler-2b*
Jun 20, 2011: NASA's
Pleiades Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest*
May 25, 2011: NASA’s
Kepler Yields the Next Harvest: A bounty of findings delivered at
the 218th Meeting of the AAS in Boston*
May 23, 2011: Kepler-10c
and a New Method to Validate Planets: Kepler
at AAS
May 15, 2011: Kepler-10
Stellar Family Portrait (image)
May 23, 2011: Kepler’s
Astounding Haul of Multiple Planet Systems*
May 23, 2011: How
to Learn a Star’s True Age*
Apr 7, 2011: Echoes
from the depth of a red giant star*
Apr 7, 2011: Kepler
discovery of a unique triply eclipsing triple star*
Apr 7, 2011: Kepler
Listens to an Orchestra of Solar-Type Stars*
Mar 30, 2011: Giant
stars reveal their inner secrets for the first time*
Mar 17, 2011: Astronomers
detect echoes from the depth of a red giant star*
Feb 11, 2011: A
tweet-up with NASA Kepler and Ames Research Center*
Feb 2, 2011: NASA's
Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System
Feb 2, 2011: Kepler
Planet Locations (image)
Feb 2, 2011: Kepler
Planet Candidates (image)
Feb 2, 2011: Multi
Planet Candidates (image)
Feb 2, 2011: An
Imagined Canyon on Planet Kepler 10-b (image)
Feb 2, 2011: Imagined
View from Planet Kepler 10-B (image)
Feb 1, 2011: Planet
Kepler 10-B in Orbit (image)
Feb 1, 2011: Planet
Kepler 10B Orbiting its Host Star (image)
Feb 1, 2011: Kepler
11 Solar System Comparison (image)
Feb 1, 2011: Kepler-11
System (image)
Feb 1, 2011: Kepler
Data Release*
Jan 27, 2011: NASA
To Announce New Planetary Discoveries*
Jan 18, 2011: Job
Opening: Kepler Support Scientist*
Jan 10, 2011: NASA's
Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet Release 11-007
Jan 10, 2011: Kepler-10b:
A Scorched World (image)
Jan 9, 2011: NASA
Chat with Kepler Scientist, Natalie Batalha*
Dec 22, 2010: NASA
Hosts Planet-Finding Tweetup in California's Silicon Valley*
Dec 16, 2010: New
Zooniverse project: Planet Hunters!*
Nov 10, 2010: Announcement
of Earlier Kepler Data Release—from June 2011 to 1 February
2011
From AAS
Electronic Announcement #214 – November 2010*
Nov 5, 2010: American
Astronomical Society gives award to Kepler PI Bill Borucki and Deputy
PI Dave Koch*
Nov 5, 2010: Beth
Sholes Honored by Society of Women Engineers with Resnik Challenger
Medal*
Oct 26, 2010: NASA's
Kepler Spacecraft Takes the Pulse of Distant Stars*
Oct 22, 2010: International
Team of Astronomers to Discuss Kepler Findings*
Oct 14, 2010: 2010
Sagan Day Essay Contest*
Oct 4, 2010: Release
10-245: NASA's Kepler Mission wins 2010 software of the year award.*
Oct 1, 2010: Kepler
Mission Research Paper Honored by Thomson Reuters*
Oct 1, 2010: Kepler-9:
A System of Multiple Planets Transiting a Sun-Like Star, Confirmed
by Timing Variations*
Aug 26, 2010: Kepler
Discovers Two Planets Transiting Same Star*
Aug 24, 2010: Artist's
Concept of Kepler 9 (image)
Aug 23, 2010: Transit
Signature of a Multi-Planet System (image)
Aug 23, 2010: Press
Conference for LATEST FINDINGS by Kepler: Kepler-9
(image)
Aug 2, 2010: Statement
from the Kepler Science Council*
Jul 27, 2010: Earth-size
is not Earth-like: the TED Talk by Dimitar Sasselov*
Jun 16, 2010: Deluge
of Data*
Jun 15, 2010: First
43 Days of Kepler Data Released*
Jun 1, 2010: 1st
Kepler Science Conference*
Apr 13, 2010: Kepler
Website Honored*
Mar 4, 2010: Kepler
One Year Anniversary*
Jan 5, 2010: Kepler
Receives Systems Engineering Award*
Jan 4, 2010: The
First Five: NASA's
Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Its First Five Exoplanets
Jan 3, 2010: Light
Curves of Kepler's First 5 Discoveries (image)
Jan 3, 2010: Kepler's
First Five Exoplanets (image)
Dec 31, 2009: The
Big Reveal*
Nov 23, 2009: Kepler
experienced a safe mode event on November 18*
Nov 6, 2009: Kepler's
Search for Small Worlds Hampered by Noisy Electronics*
Aug 6, 2009: First
Phase*
Aug 3, 2009: NASA
Announces Briefing About Kepler's Early Science Results*
2009 Nov 20: Science
Magazines Honor Cutting-Edge NASA Programs - Release: 09-276*
2009 Aug 6: NASA'S
Kepler Mission Spies Changing Phases in a Distant World*
2009 Aug 5: HAT
P7b Light Curves-Magnified (image)
2009 Aug 5: HAT
P7b Light Curves (image)
2009 Aug 5: Habitable
Planet Zone (image)
2009 Aug 3: NASA
Announces Briefing About Kepler's Early Science Results*
2009 May 13: KEPLER MISSION STATUS
REPORT - 2009-084 - Let
the Planet Hunt Begin*
2009 April 16: NEWS Release: 2009-067
- NASA'S
KEPLER CAPTURES FIRST VIEWS OF PLANET-HUNTING TERRITORY;
Zooming
in on Kepler's Field of View (image)
2009 April 15: Images— Where
Kepler Sees; Kepler's
Diamond Mine of Stars; Cluster
of Stars in Kepler's Sight; Host
to 'Hot Jupiter' (labeled); Host
to 'Hot Jupiter'; Kepler
Eyes Cluster and Known Planet
2009 April 7: NEWS
Release: 2009-065 - DUST COVER JETTISONED FROM NASA'S KEPLER
TELESCOPE;
Kepler's
Full Field of View (image)
2009 April 7: 14: 00 UTC - Distance to
Kepler: 3,064,000 km; 1,904,000 mi; 0.02 AU; 7.97 times the distance
to the Moon.:
2009 April 3: Kepler's
Primary Mirror (image)
2009 Mar 9: Kepler
Lifts Off! (image)
2009 Mar 7: Release: 09-052 NASA'S
KEPLER MISSION ROCKETS TO SPACE IN SEARCH OF OTHER EARTH*
2009 Mar 6: Kepler
Mission Rockets to Space in Search of Other Earths. Science@NASA*
2009 Mar 6: Images—Kepler
Mission Star Field; Artist's
Rendering Of Kepler's Target Region In The Milky Way; Kepler's
Launch; Kepler
Launch in 2009 (image)
2009 Mar 5: Images—Delta
Soars; Ready
to Roar (image)
2009 Mar 3: Kepler
Prepared for Launch (image)
Mar 1, 2009: Images—Technicians
Connect Fairing; Kepler
Leaves Astrotech; Kepler
Joins 3rd Stage
2009 Feb 26: NASA'S
Kepler Telescope to Launch Aboard Delta II Rocket*
2009 Feb 25: NASA
Tradition Continues from Generation to Generation*
2009 Feb 25: Milwaukee
Native Helps NASA Search for Earth-Size Planets*
2009 Feb 20: Kepler
Mission to Hunt for Earth-like Planets. Science@NASA*
2009 Feb 19: NASA's
Kepler Mission to Seek Other Earths. NASA Release
: 09-035. : Techs
Check Out Kepler (image)
2009 Jan 6: The Kepler Flight Segment
arrived in Florida for launch processing at the Astrotech facility
near Kennedy Space Center (KSC). You can follow the processing of
Kepler and the launch vehicle by way of photos posted on the KSC
photo page: Kepler
Spacecraft Arrives (image)
2008 Dec 18: Release : 08-111AR.
NASA's
Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida*
2009 Dec 17: NASA's
Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida (image)
2009 Nov 9: Kepler
Solar Array Assembly (image)
2008 Sep 23: NASA's
Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More Tests*