A high school student has made a significant discovery using old space data. Ana Humphrey re-examined information from the ...
NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday. Already well past its ...
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 ...
On March 7, 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope took off from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta II rocket. For almost a decade, the space telescope expanded our understanding of the universe before it ...
A distant exoplanet known as Kepler-51d is challenging astronomers once again. New observations from the James Webb Space ...
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope went rogue over the weekend before righting itself. The spacecraft lost its way for a while and even phoned home for help, leaving NASA officials scrambling for answers.
A recent conundrum about a star 1,500 light years away discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope has extraterrestrial enthusiasts crying "alien" as an explanation, but scientists studying the star are ...
When the Kepler space telescope malfunctioned last spring, it looked as though its incredibly successful planet-hunting mission might be over—and NASA made that sad fact official a few months later.
Why are “super-puff” exoplanets so intriguing? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of scientists investigated a unique ...
The most prolific planet-hunting machine in history has signed off. NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered 70 percent of the 3,800 confirmed alien worlds to date, has run out of fuel, ...
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - The Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and will be retired after a 9-1/2-year mission in which it detected thousands of planets beyond our solar system and boosted ...