During Campaigns 0 through 14, the K2 mission has now targeted an estimated 297,991 objects, including 50,159 cool dwarf stars, 37,041 giant stars, 40,125 galaxies, and 1,560 white dwarfs. The number of confirmed K2 planets recently surpassed 200 and now stands at 212!

The flyer …

The data release notes for K2 Campaign 14 are now available online. We encourage all users to review the notes.

In particular, we draw attention to the fact that more cadences than usual were flagged as "Spacecraft is not in fine point" (QUALITY flag bit #16, decimal=32768) due to …

The science program and target lists for K2 Campaign 17 have now been posted on the approved targets & programs page.

The target list is based on the peer review of target proposals submitted in response to the K2 GO Cycle 6 Phase-1 opportunity. PI teams may expect to receive feedback …

The mission encourages members of our community to share and archive value-added data products derived from Kepler or K2 observations via the High Level Science Products (HLSP) service offered by the data archive at MAST.

In recent months, four bespoke data products have been released or updated in this way …

The GO office curates a database of scientific publications pertaining to Kepler and K2. The list now contains 2502 publications, of which 2219 are peer-reviewed. Last year was the most productive one so far with over 500 publications recorded!

The database is available as a spreadsheet (kepler-publications.xls). If you …

NASA's TESS and Kepler/K2 Missions are convening a joint splinter meeting during the 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), which is being held in Washington, DC, next week.

The session will take place on Tuesday evening, January 9th, 2018, at 7:30 pm in room "National Harbor …

We are currently accepting DDT proposals for Campaigns 18 and 19. The primary goal of the DDT program is to enable exceptional, time-critical observing opportunities.

Owing to the overlaps with previous fields, C18 offers the opportunity to revisit targets from C5, while C19 enables re-observations of objects from C3 and …

Members of the Kepler/K2 mission team are looking forward to meeting you at the 231st AAS meeting in Washington, DC. You can find us at our exhibit booth, the K2/TESS splinter session, and several presentations.

Because the currently-ongoing K2 Campaign 16 is partially dedicated to the Supernova Experiment, the project has acquired PanSTARRS time to monitor the entire field every night in two filters (cycling through g+r and g+i) for the purpose of providing early alerts for transients in the field. The alerts …

K2 Campaign 16 started successfully on December 7th and has continued to proceed without issues since.

Uniquely, the spacecraft is pointing along the forward-facing direction of the spacecraft's velocity vector during Campaigns 16 and 17, which allows the field to be accessed from Earth during Kepler's observations. This enables K2's …