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Published online 30 October 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.1051
Corrected online: 3 November 2009

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Planet hunt delayed

Noise confounds NASA mission to find an Earth twin.

Eric Hand

Kepler, NASA's mission to search for planets around other stars, will not be able to spot potentially habitable Earth-sized planets until 2011, according to the mission's team. The delays are caused by noisy amplifiers in the telescope's electronics.

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  • The Kepler PI William Borucki
    has given some clarification in New Scientist at
    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18095-telescope-glitch-could-delay-discovery-of-alien-earths.html

    • 03 Nov, 2009
    • Posted by: Jean Schneider