The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

For NASA's Kepler space telescope, the world will end in ice rather than fire. Kepler, which is responsible for 70 percent of the roughly 3,800 confirmed exoplanet discoveries to date, has closed ...

NASA engineer William Borucki drove development of the Kepler Space Telescope. Credit: Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP/Alamy Once Kepler’s hunt began, decisions also needed to be made ...

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 ...

And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

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 ...

Nasa's Kepler telescope has recently found 216 new planets, meaning it has now discovered more than 4000 potential new worlds! Of these 216 planets, 10 of them could potentially be home to some ...

The assembly of the telescope ramped up this fall, with 600 workers aiming to get everything integrated and tested by late ...