NASA says planet-finding Kepler satellite directional equipment failing . The spacecraft is designed to look for planets in the habitable zone of their stars, where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface and life could develop. She says NASA 's resourceful scientists working to fix it ; loss of its photometry would be huge . Urry : Yale prof has other method to find exoplanets ; we 're bound to eventually find signs of life .
NASA says planet-finding Kepler satellite directional equipment failing . Meg Urry says Kepler has found 2,700-plus exoplanets , some that may harbor life . She says NASA 's resourceful scientists working to fix it ; loss of its photometry would be huge . Urry : Yale prof has other method to find exoplanets ; we 're bound to eventually find signs of life .