‘Noisy’ stars mask planet’s true size
Sydney, July 10 (ANI): A German study has suggested that astronomers observing exoplanets around other stars may be underestimating their size because of active stars that add ‘noise’ to the observation [...]
NASA’s Kepler mission to search for Earth-sized planets
London, March 4 (ANI): NASA’s Kepler mission, which is all set to launch on March 6, will take a long look at the stars in the constellation Cygnus, searching for an Earth-sized planet elsewhere in the Galaxy.
According to a report in Nature News, the Kepler space telescope, which is the single instrument on board Kepler, [...]



