Our US-based Kepler/K2 community is being alerted to the open call for proposals to be submitted to NASA's Exoplanet Research Program (XRP). Investigations are expected to directly support the goal of understanding exoplanetary systems, by doing one or more of the following:

• detect exoplanets and/or confirm exoplanet candidates …

A limitation that K2 users have faced in previous Campaigns is that simultaneous observations from the ground were only possible during challenging twilight conditions, owing to K2's strategy to observe in the backward-facing direction along its velocity vector.

This will change in Campaign 16 (Dec 2017 - Feb 2018), when K2 …

The science program and target lists for K2 Campaign 13 have now been posted on the approved targets & programs page.

Campaign 13 is scheduled to run from March 8th through May 27th, 2017, and will be observing towards the constellation of Taurus in the Galactic Anti-Center direction.

The target list …

The Kepler/K2 community is being alerted to the open call for proposals to be submitted to the Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP), which provides financial support for US-based investigations whose primary purpose is the analysis of NASA space astrophysics data that are archived in the public domain at the …

The Kepler/K2 Science Center is seeking to fill multiple staff positions within the Kepler and K2 Guest Observer (GO) Office at NASA’s Ames Research Center.

The Kepler & K2 missions are launching a Visiting Scientist Program.

The Program enables users of Kepler or K2 data to visit the mission headquarters at NASA Ames in California, for a period of multiple weeks or months, to work on a research project that would benefit from close interaction with …

The Kepler & K2 missions are offering internship opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students wishing to to gain experience in the scientific exploitation and operations of a major NASA mission.

The internships are based at Kepler/K2's mission headquarters at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

Example projects …

The project has decided that raw data from the currently on-going K2 Campaign 12 will be released immediately after downlink. C12 includes the high-profile TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system.

The raw data will be available from a public directory at the MAST data archive on or near March 6th. The use of …

The K2 Campaign 10 Data Release Notes are now available online.

We strongly encourage all users to review the notes to learn more about the impact of the pointing offset, which affected the first 6 days of the Campaign, and the loss of Module 4, which resulted in a 14-day …

The pipeline-processed data for K2 Campaign 10 are now available for download from the K2 archive at MAST.

As explained in detail in the data release notes, the data were processed in two separate sets:

• The first six days of data, dubbed C10a, were collected with a pointing error of …