The conference, which starts today at 21:00, will focus on exoplanets – planets that orbit their stars outside the solar system. The event will be broadcast live on television and on the NASA website.
The details of the findings were embargoed by Nature magazine prior to the press conference. The media and the public can also ask questions during their Twitter briefing using the #askNASA hashtag.
The briefing participants are:
�Thomas Zurbuchen, Assistant Administrator for Science Missions at NASA Headquarters in Washington
�Michael Gillon, astronomer from the University of Liege in Belgium
�Sean Carey, Manager of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at California Institute of Technology / IPAC, Pasadena, CA
�Nicole Lewis, Astronomer at the Baltimore Institute of Science
�Sarah Seeger, professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Watch the NASA press conference:
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