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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.

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Team Begins Search for Earths in the Sun's Backyard

Read about a project to find Earthlike planets orbiting our closest star.

01.08.08

A team of planet hunters is looking for Earthlike planets orbiting the sun's closest neighbor.

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Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'

01.07.08

Hubble images reveal 14 young, runaway stars plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas, creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing tails of glowing gas.

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Planet-Finding Mission Arrives in Florida

01.07.09

NASA's Kepler spacecraft, scheduled to launch in March on a journey to search for other Earths, arrived in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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Star Light, Star Bright, Its Explanation is Out of Sight

A mysterious flash of light from somewhere near or far in the universe is still keeping astronomers in the dark long after it was first detected in 2006.
NASA's Swift Shows Active Galaxies Are Different Near and Far

An ongoing X-ray survey undertaken by NASA's Swift spacecraft is revealing differences between nearby active galaxies and those located about halfway across the universe.
Gamma-Ray Burst Offers First Peek at a Young Galaxy's Star Factory

Astronomers have, for the first time, identified gas molecules in the host galaxy of a gamma-ray burst.
Fermi Unveils Dozen New Pulsars

The Fermi Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and detected pulses from 18 others.
Cassiopeia A Comes Alive

Two new efforts have taken a famous supernova remnant from the static to the dynamic.

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NASA Invites Public to Choose Hubble's Next Discovery

01.28.09 - NASA is giving everyone the opportunity to use the world's most celebrated telescope to explore the heavens and boldly look where the Hubble Space Telescope has never looked before.
NASA Kepler Launch International Media Accreditation Ends Feb. 5

01.27.09 - The launch of NASA's Kepler telescope, the first mission capable of finding Earth-size and smaller planets around other stars, is scheduled for March 5 at 10:48 p.m. EST, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.