The Kepler-10 planetary system is clearly a place of extremes. It has a small, Earth-sized world that is half scorched, the first rocky world ever discovered by the Kepler mission. That’s Kepler-10 b.

Not bad for a dead bird. Before Kepler goes dark for good, let’s take a look at how NASA managed to resurrect this planet hunting space telescope and greatly expand our knowledge of the planets ...

And rightly so. It’s called a planet finder, but that was never its purpose, exactly. Staring for years at the same field of 150,000 stars to record transits, Kepler’s job was to gather ...

and plenty of software solutions have been developed in the six years since the end of Kepler's primary mission to help facilitate crunching large sets of data to look for planets around other stars.

Since 2009, Kepler has been looking for planets outside our solar system where life might flourish. Batalha was the one who refined the point in the sky—tucked under the wing of Cygnus ...

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