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William Borucki, science principal investigator for NASA's Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California, is the recipient of the 2013 Henry Draper Medal awarded by the National Academy of Sciences. Borucki is honored for his founding concept and visionary leadership during the development of Kepler, which uses transit photometry to determine the frequency and kinds of planets around other stars. "This is a commendable recognition for Bill Borucki...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- William Borucki, science principal investigator for NASA's Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California, is the recipient of the 2013 Henry Draper Medal awarded by the National Academy of Sciences. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Borucki is honored for his founding concept and visionary leadership during the development of Kepler, which uses transit...

HAMPTON, Va., June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A NASA scientist knows what he is looking for and what he may find under or in the Milky Way tonight. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) On Tuesday, June 8, at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, space scientist William Borucki will present "Kepler Space Mission: Progress in the Detection of Earth-size Planets in the Habitable Zone of Solar-like Stars" at 2 p.m. in the Reid Conference Center. Borucki, Kepler...

Orbiting Telescope Designed to Find Earth-Like PlanetsNASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.Kepler's high sensitivity to both small and large planets enabled the discovery of the exoplanets, named Kepler 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b and 8b. The discoveries were announced Monday, Jan. 4, by the members of the Kepler science team during a news briefing at the...