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The Kepler Space Telescope is almost out of fuel, which means its life is coming to an end, NASA announced today. The space agency says it put the planet-hunting spacecraft into a “hibernation ...
This afternoon, NASA officially bid farewell to the Kepler Space Telescope, a pioneering spacecraft that helped discover thousands of planets beyond our Solar System. After years of service that ...
NASA was forced to plan for the inevitable death of the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope a few weeks ago. The spacecraft, which had already discovered … ...
Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...
The discovery marks the first solar system to tie with our solar system in the number of planets orbiting one star, according to NASA.
Earth cosplays as a Star Wars lightsaber in a radiant portrait from NASA's Kepler space telescope.
After nine years of service, half a million stars surveyed, and thousands of planets discovered around those stars, NASA's astonishingly successful Kepler space telescope is finally taking a well ...
Planet hunting telescope began burning precious fuel last week. — -- The Kepler space telescope is now "stable," NASA said today, following an alarming discovery last week that found the ...
NASA on Thursday revealed the discovery of blazing-hot exoplanet Kepler-90i thanks to the use of a Google neural network trained to identify planets from the NASA Kepler space telescope's data.
The Kepler spacecraft, which declared a state of emergency on Friday, has resumed normal deep space operations according to a Monday NASA press release.
Although NASA reported in May that the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope went offline, the space agency is investigating a process to bring the spacecraft back to life.