The K2 project has selected the fields that will be observed as part of Campaigns 17, 18, and 19. The fields were selected based on the feedback received as part of a recent solicitation for community input, while also taking into account the spacecraft's constraints and fuel usage.

Campaign 17 …

Data processing for K2 Campaign 11 is now complete and the pixel files and lightcurves are in the process of being shipped to the MAST archive. We anticipate that the data will become available to the public towards the last week of June. The Campaign 11 data processing proceeded more …

The Kepler/K2 Guest Observer Office has four new members joining us at Ames Research Center in California: Michael Gully-Santiago, Ann Marie Cody, Christina Hedges, and Zé Vinícius.

Ann Marie Cody earned her PhD at the California Institute of Technology in 2011, where she investigated the properties of young brown …

A small percentage of the available K2 pixels in each campaign may be allocated by the K2 Guest Observer (GO) Office Director as Director's Discretionary Targets (DDTs). The primary utilization of DDT programs is in support of community-proposed requests that are based on exceptional, time-critical observing opportunities that cannot be …

The conference agenda for the Kepler & K2 Science Conference IV, to be held June 19–23 at NASA Ames Research Center, is now available from the conference website.

The agenda features 85 talks and 101 posters covering topics across all science areas that are impacted by Kepler and K2 data …

NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) will hold its sixteenth meeting on Sunday, June 18, 2017 in Mountain View, CA, one day before the start of Kepler & K2 SciCon IV in the same city.

ExoPAG is responsible for soliciting and coordinating community input into the development and execution of …

The science program and target lists for K2 Campaign 14 have now been posted on the approved targets & programs page.

Campaign 14 is scheduled to run from May 31 through August 19, 2017, and will be observing towards the constellations of Leo and Sextans near the North Galactic Cap. The …

During Kepler’s commissioning phase in April 2009, the spacecraft observed 33,424 stars in a dither pattern for the purpose of measuring the Pixel Response Function (PRF). The pattern consisted of 122 pointings, each with a duration of 14.7 minutes, observed across a 2.5-day period on April …

The latest version of the Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) Catalog, version DR25, is now available in the NASA Exoplanet Archive.

The catalog details all the transit-like features across the full data set of the original Kepler mission, i.e. Quarters 1 through 17, as found by the Kepler pipeline …

The raw, uncalibrated data files for K2 Campaign 12 are now available for download from the data archive at MAST.

The raw files are made public straight away to aid astronomers in preparing proposals due this month to use ground-based telescopes to further investigate TRAPPIST-1. These are not the project's …