Misbehaving Economics, The Disappearing Night Sky, The Poetry of Mourning Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Stirring Trouble With Richard Thaler, The Father of Behavioral Economics Dozens of U.S. Diplomats Call for Strikes Against Assad in Syria How Violence Changes the Brexit Debate Films to Catch and Skip at the Box Office This Weekend America's New, More Progressive Era of Country Music Heartache at Valencia Community College Bad News, Stargazers: The Night Sky is Disappearing Before Our Eyes U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on a Year of Gun Violence Since the Kepler Space Telescope launched in 2009, scientists on Earth have been able to use its eyes to confirm the existence of over a thousand exoplanets in just one sliver of the galaxy. ( Kevin Carden / Getty ) Produced by PRI and WNYC