After nearly a decade of groundbreaking exploration, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope concluded its mission, leaving a lasting ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft is running out of fuel, giving the planet-hunting observatory a few months for one last maneuver. "Trailing Earth's orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope ...

After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel ...

A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a "key" that will harmonize well with the science goals and ...

NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which shut its powerful eye nearly five years ago, continued finding exoplanets even while taking its final breaths. A team of astrophysicists and citizen ...

There's some sad news from NASA: The space agency says its Kepler space telescope is beyond repair. The $600 million planet-hunting probe whose mission was to search other solar systems for Earth-like ...

NASA’s star gazing Kepler space telescope has discovered two Saturn-sized exoplanets that are crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star. In a teleconference today, NASA said in addition to ...

Editor’s’s note: According to multiple sources, Kepler has not found anything “new”. However it has successfully detected at least one previously discovered substellar object circling another star. In ...

NASA today said its star-gazing satellite Kepler has identified its first rocky planet orbiting a sun similar to our own — 560 light years from our solar system. While not in an area of space ...

Launched by NASA in 2009, the Kepler space telescope was outfitted with equipment to discover and study Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way galaxy. It was named after the 17th century scientist and ...