NASA Supercomputer Assists the Hunt for Exomoons

NASA: Kepler News and Features: Artist's impression of a hypothetical Earth-like moon around a Saturn-like exoplanet. A team of 21st-century explorers working for the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) project, based at Harvard University, are searching for exomoons using data from NASA's Kepler mission and the Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center. The discovery of exomoons--moons situated beyond our own solar system--would add...