Read more Kepler spacecraft stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/32038/kepler-spacecraft.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:46:31 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/52672/kepler-begins-search-for-other-earths.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNASA's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral last night, Space.com reports. Kepler, the widest-field telescope ever sent into space, will spend the next three years scanning the sky for a planet in the "Goldilocks zone" where conditions are just right for liquid water to exist and...http://www.newser.com/story/52672/kepler-begins-search-for-other-earths.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 07 Mar 2009 2:18:16 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/52535/nasa-begins-hunt-for-earth-like-planets.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNASA will launch its Kepler space telescope tomorrow on a 3-year mission to look for planets as habitable to life as Earth, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Kepler will use a sophisticated digital camera, 10 times more sensitive than consumer models, to survey distant stars for orbiting planets with just...http://www.newser.com/story/52535/nasa-begins-hunt-for-earth-like-planets.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Mar 2009 19:20:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50874/alien-life-inevitable-astronomer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists now believe there could be as many habitable planets in the cosmos as there are stars, and that makes life’s existence elsewhere “inevitable” over billions of years, says one. “It is sort of like running an experiment in your refrigerator—turn it off and something will grow in there,...http://www.newser.com/story/50874/alien-life-inevitable-astronomer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 15 Feb 2009 12:21:07 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/50522/if-another-earth-is-out-there-kepler-will-find-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIf there's truly no place like home, then NASA's new Kepler mission will help scientists prove it. The space telescope, set to launch March 5, will scan the skies for planets with the approximate size and temperature range of Earth. Matches could be candidates for extraterrestrial life; if Kepler finds...http://www.newser.com/story/50522/if-another-earth-is-out-there-kepler-will-find-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Feb 2009 14:18:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/30775/new-planets-yield-hopes-of-life-beyond.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe discovery, announced last week, that rocky, Earth-sized planets appear to be circling sun-sized stars in our own galaxy should thrill the closet Star Trek geek in all of us, Natalie Angier writes in the New York Times. "If planets abound, scientists suspect that life abounds, too, at least of...http://www.newser.com/story/30775/new-planets-yield-hopes-of-life-beyond.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Jun 2008 13:43:39 CDT