Kepler's role as the leading exoplanet-hunting space telescope was taken over by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which was launched on April 18, 2018 and completed its primary ...

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

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 ...

NASA announced Thursday (Aug. 15) that it will stand down on attempts to recover the exoplanet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, which has exceeded its mission life. NASA is now looking for new ways to ...

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

Kepler Spacecraft Is Stable And Out Of Emergency Status, NASA Says : The Two-Way Kepler, the telescope that's nearly 75 million miles away from Earth, placed itself into Emergency Mode sometime in ...

NASA's sharp-shooting Kepler spacecraft is ready to take its place this week in the pantheon of planetary detection technologies. IE 11 is not supported.

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 ...

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. IE 11 is not supported.

A follow-up mission to Kepler, called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is scheduled to launch in 2017 and will look for larger and brighter planets closer to our solar system.The ...