High School Senior Uncovers Potential for Hundreds of Earth-Like Planets in Kepler Data

An 18-year-old high school senior has won a $250,000 prize for calculating the potential for finding more planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope.

High School Senior Uncovers Potential for Hundreds of Earth-Like Planets in Kepler Data

Source: NASA Ames Research Center