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France’s COROT Satellite Is a New Kind of Space Telescope
This is the second article in our examination of the newly-emerging science of exoplanet detection and study. Last week, we took a look at NASA’s Kepler telescope, which recently completed…
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Has Found Five Exoplanets in the First Year of Its Mission
NASA’s Kepler space telescope just had its first birthday. Launched on March 6, 2009, this satellite is the first telescope capable of detecting planets as small as Earth orbiting other…
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