Skip to Main Content
The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University

The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

The Astronomy Department in CAS. Philip Muirhead, a BU astronomy professor, is leading a team that is assembling a list of red dwarf stars for NASA's latest satellite, TESS, to explore. PHOTO BY ANDRES PICON/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU team joins NASA in the search for earth-like planets

Lillian Ilsley-Greene April 18, 2018
This week, NASA will launch its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the mission of which, aided by a group of Boston University professors and students, is to locate Earth-like exoplanets.

Kepler mission finds three potentially life-sustaining planets

Daily Free Press Admin April 29, 2013

If the film “Star Wars” taught the world anything, it was that getting along with alien life forms might be difficult. However, that has not stopped the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...

Load More Stories
Activate Search
Kepler