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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope. In a giant “clean room” in Maryland, engineers are assembling the Roman telescope, aiming for launch no later than 2027.