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The team has confirmed that Module 4 has failed but the K2 mission marches on with Campaign 11, observing the Galactic Center and Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus. original

NASA’s Kepler and Swift missions have found rapidly rotating stars producing more than 100 times our own sun’s peak X-ray emission. Spinning so fast they resemble pumpkins, the stars likely formed by mergers of sun-like stars. original

Heartbeat stars got their name because if you were to map out their brightness over time, the result looks like an electrocardiogram, a graph of the electrical activity of the heart. original

A new study finds clues to where clouds gather on hot Jupiters, and what they’re likely made of. original

A conversation with Elissa Quintana, NASA research scientist for the Kepler and K2 mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. original

The animation shows a series of 15 images of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko taken by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, operating in its K2 mission, from Sept. 17 through Sept. 18. The comet is seen passing through Kepler’s field of view from top right to bottom left, as outlined by the diagonal strip. original

A conversation with Steve Howell, NASA Senior Research Scientist on astrophysics. original

Astronomers confirm TRAPPIST-1 is a single star and validate that its three transiting planets are Earth-size. original

A conversation with Rus Belikov and Eduardo Bendek, senior research scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center, working on next generation technology to directly image planets beyond the solar system. original

A newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable. original

The team has confirmed that the photometer responded as expected and began collecting data again on Tuesday, Aug. 2. original

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has helped amass the most complete catalog of rotation periods for stars in a cluster original

The team finds the photometer—the camera onboard the Kepler spacecraft—powered off. The photometer was turned on again and commanded to resume science operations. original