NASA’s CSP was created to transition near-Earth missions from government to commercially owned space-relay communication networks. The project plans to deliver operational services to the Near ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has been peering deep into the Milky Way galaxy for nearly a decade. It has spotted over 2,500 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars, and over 2,500 more possible ...

NASA announced on Oct. 30 that Kepler's science work was done, because the spacecraft had run out of fuel. Mission team members said then that decommissioning commands would likely be sent within ...

But NASA says Kepler has run out of fuel. Subscribe ... During its mission, Kepler found 2,681 confirmed planets and another 2,899 candidates, bringing its tally to 5,580.

After nine years in deep space collecting data, NASA's Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. NASA has decided to retire the spacecraft within its ...

The Kepler Space Telescope, NASA's powerhouse planet hunter, ... “It hit me like a sledgehammer,” recalled Sobeck, project system engineer for the mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center.

NASA has retired its Kepler space telescope, which discovered more than 2,600 planets outside our solar system during its nine-year life span. The news: Kepler has finally run out of fuel. NASA ...

The Kepler mission was conceived in the early 1980s by NASA scientist Bill Borucki, with later help from David Koch. At the time, there were no known planets outside of the solar system.

One of Earth’s most venerable planet-hunters, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, has gone quiet. Today, the space agency announced that after nearly a decade of staring at the stars, Kepler is out of ...

The development let NASA start a new mission with the spacecraft, which it called K2. Kepler and K2 helped researchers discover that planets are incredibly common, even more common than stars .

NASA announced Tuesday that the Kepler Space Telescope, which has been orbiting Earth and looking for exoplanets since 2009, ran out of fuel. RIP.