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exoplanet

Weather forecasts from alien worlds are in - and it's wild out there

7 November 2018

We have seen violent winds, clouds of glass and ruby hailstones. In fact, weather on exoplanets can be so extreme that it can make or break their habitability
The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on

7 November 2018

On 30 October, NASA announced that the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft is being shut down. Over almost a decade, it changed our views on our place in the universe

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