Data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have revolutionized the search for planets outside the Solar System — and are now doing the same for asteroseismology.

Space telescope’s mission to find planets outside the Solar System is probably over. NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is not only the most prolific exoplanet detector ever; it is — or was — a ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

New planet in Kepler-51 system discovered using James Webb Space Telescope ... The team's three-planet model predicted that Kepler-51d would transit around 2 a.m. EDT in June 2023, ...

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially habitable exoplanets that may harbour life. How does it find them? How do we know these exoplanets are habitable?

On Episode 137 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Jason Steffen, a professor of physics at UNLV and a member of the science team for the Kepler Space Telescope mission ...

To date, NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope has discovered about 30 roughly Earth-size exoplanets in their host stars' "habitable zone" — the range of orbital distances at which liquid water ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suggest that at least one more ... The researchers said they had no reason to believe the three-planet model of the Kepler-51 system ...

Ten years after the telescope's launch, a journalist reflects on how it shaped her personally even as it revolutionized how we see the universe. A tabletop model of the Kepler space telescope ...

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 ...

The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6, 2009, with the goal of observing more than 100,000 stars in ...