New Space Telescope To Survey For Nearby Earthlike Worlds

Credit: Kim Shiflett/NASA
Years before NASA’s Kepler space telescope revealed that the galaxy is replete with planets, some astronomers were trying to figure out how to survey the solar neighborhood for potential Earthlike worlds. But that was not what Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) physicist George Ricker was...

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