
March 9, 2009
Feature Story
Starlight, Star Bright
NASA’s Kepler telescope was successfully launched on March 6, and is now preparing to search for Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars. Kepler is the first step in identifying potentially habitable planets beyond our solar system – but future missions may be able to determine if distant planets are actually living. Sara Seager of MIT discusses one potential set of missions that could identity Earth’s planetary twins.