WASHINGTON: NASA will host a news teleconference at 9:00am PDT (noon EDT) Thursday, July 23rd, to announce new discoveries made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope.
The first exoplanet orbiting another star like our sun was discovered in 1995. Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago. Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years — another Earth.
John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington
Jon Jenkins, Kepler data analysis lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California
Jeff Coughlin, Kepler research scientist at SETI Institute in Mountain View, California
Didier Queloz, professor of astrophysics at Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Launched in March 2009, Kepler is the first NASA mission to detect Earth-size planets orbiting distant stars in or near the habitable zone — the range of distance from a star in which the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might sustain liquid water.
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