• Kawaler contributes to new Kepler book

    A new book chronicles the scientific discoveries of NASA’s Kepler and K2 missions. It also asks some big questions: “Are we alone? What is our place in the Universe?” Iowa State’s Steve Kawaler contributed to the book and is chair of the editorial advisory board for the partnership that published…

  • Snapshot of a spacecraft's 13-sector mosaic of the southern sky, recorded over the course of a year. One object shown in the mosaic is a long, bright edge of our Milky Way galaxy.
    Kawaler helps lead international team analyzing data from NASA mission

    LAS astronomers and an international team detail an interesting case of planetary evolution and demonstrate how star studies can be an important part of the search for planets beyond our solar system.