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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kepler Space Telescope Found Science and Art in Exoplanets 6 minute read This artist's concept obtained October 30, 2018 courtesy of NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle, shows Kepler-16b, the first ...

You'll find exoplanets with names like Kepler-452b or Kepler-4b, and many, many more besides. These are named after the NASA telescope used to discover them, the Kepler Space Telescope, which was ...

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 ...

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.

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