Ever since a mechanical failure caused the end of the original Kepler mission in 2013, the Kepler spacecraft has been conducting a survey...

Let’s deal with the big question first. Has Planet Hunters discovered aliens? The answer is no. But that doesn’t mean that all of the...

A new MAST High Level Science Product from K2 has been delivered that includes extracted lightcurves. Courtesy of Vanderburg & Johnson...

Today we have a post by Andrew Vanderburg. Andrew is a graduate student at Harvard University who works on producing and correcting K2...

Now that were in the midst of the showing the first batch of  science grade data from the K2 mission,  I thought I’d give some more...

It’s up! The first science data from the new Kepler K2 mission is up on Planet Hunters just waiting to be looked at for new planets,...

On December 16, 2010, the Zooniverse launched Planet Hunters to enlist the public’s help to search for extrasolar planets (exoplanets) in...

Yesterday marks the start of a new era for the Kepler spacecraft with the public release of the first observations from K2, the...

By the end of September, the first science grade K2 observations from Campaign 0  should be  made available to the astronomical community...

NASA has recently approved funding for the two-wheeled Kepler mission dubbed ‘K2.’ Field 0 was an engineering field that Kepler started...

Image Credit: NASA Ames/ W Stenzel Last August, I wrote about the end of Kepler’s original mission as it had been operating for the past...

K2 mountain, the 2nd highest peak in the world Image credit: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:K2_2006b.jpg) In May, Kepler...