NASA reports that its Kepler spacecraft, an instrument positioned almost 75 million miles from Earth that hunts for exoplanets, is now functioning normally after an unknown event put it in ...

NASA has given up hope of restoring the Kepler spacecraft to full health and is now attempting to determine what the observatory can accomplish in its compromised state, agency officials announced ...

(Such data-beaming windows are limited; far-flung NASA spacecraft must share the agency's Deep Space Network, a system of radio telescopes around the globe.) Kepler got all the Campaign 18 data ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has been on an extended mission called K2 after two of its four reaction wheels failed in 2013. Credit: NASA PHOENIX — Spacecraft controllers are working to restore ...

“That was an amazing diving catch,” said Paul Hertz, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters. Mission planners reworked Kepler’s mode of operation to point at other parts of the ...

It’s official: NASA has given the Kepler spacecraft’s mission makeover the go-ahead, turning it from a pure planet-hunting endeavor to an exploratory venture to study a wide range of celestial ...

This week, scientists gathered at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View to celebrate a milestone: The original Kepler mission’s final cache of data has been organized and made available ...

In 2009, a NASA spacecraft, fresh off the launchpad, drifted into an orbit high above Earth. The Kepler telescope would circle the sun, but its attention would be focused elsewhere, far beyond the ...

Kepler was originally launched in 2009, and its mission, hunting for exoplanets, was expected to run for three and a half years. However, NASA quickly found that the mission would take more time ...

NASA experienced a close call this weekend with its planet-seeking Kepler space telescope. On April 7 th, during a scheduled contact, mission operations engineers discovered that Kepler was in ...

NASA reports that original Kepler mission identified 2,244 candidate exoplanets with 2,327 of them confirmed. Kepler's K2 phase resulted in 479 candidates exoplanets and 323 confirmed.