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

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 ...

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 ...

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 premier planet-hunting space telescope is out of gas. The Kepler space telescope can no longer search for planets orbiting other stars, ending its nearly 10-year mission, officials from ...

After discovering more than 2,600 planets, NASA’s Kepler space telescope is headed for retirement. By Deborah Netburn Staff Writer . Oct. 30, 2018 7:30 PM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options.

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

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

A new discovery by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a new planet in the Kepler-51 system. The Kepler-51 system is a cluster known for its "super-puff" planets with densities ...

To help explain what is happening in the Kepler-51 system, the research team revisited previous transit data from NASA's Kepler space telescope and NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

Just over a year ago, when NASA's James Webb Space Telescope switched on, dominating headlines of even mainstream media, it felt like the start of a new era.