When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

After 9 years of observations, the Kepler space telescope showed us that on average, every star has at least one planet.

Days after they declared a spacecraft emergency over the Kepler space telescope, NASA engineers say the craft has now recovered and that they're working to figure out what happened. Kepler, which ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which discovered more than 2,680 exoplanets orbiting distant stars and allowed scientists to statistically show billions more must exist across the Milky Way, has finally ...

The space agency has approved a new mission called K2 for Kepler. The telescope's original exoplanet hunt came to an end in May 2013 when the second of the spacecraft's four reaction wheels failed ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope is discovering alien planets again. The prolific spacecraft has spotted its first new alien planet since being hobbled by a malfunction in May 2013, researchers ...

The Kepler spacecraft, which has revolutionized our understanding of exoplanets, has been damaged beyond repair, NASA officials said today.

NASA's sharp-shooting Kepler spacecraft is ready to take its place this week in the pantheon of planetary detection technologies.

NASA's Kepler space telescope, a sharp-eyed spacecraft designed to hunt for Earthlike planets, is ready to ship out for an early March launch.

Kepler Aerospace, an Indian space-tech startup, has secured a landmark defence contract to develop the world's first ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...