Though NASA’s Kepler space telescope officially “retired” in October 2018, scientists are still pouring over data from the iconic exoplanet hunter that operated for more than nine years. Most recently ...

The Kepler Space Telescope was retired in 2018 after a nine-year mission that saw it discover an incredible 2,600 confirmed exoplanets, kicking off the modern era of exoplanet research. But now there ...

The Kepler Space Telescope ended its wildly successful planet-hunting mission last year, but it's still making discoveries from the grave. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has since ...

Five years since the Kepler Space Telescope was retired, a team of astronomers believe they’ve found exoplanets captured by some of the veteran observatory’s last light. Kepler launched to space in ...

Kepler Space Telescope found a lot of data before it malfunctioned in 2013; scientists are now going back through it. With much fanfare, NASA announced this week that its Kepler Space Telescope had ...

This artist's concept shows the KOI-134 system, which a 2025 paper revealed to have two planets: KOI-134 b and KOI-134 c. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC) A new investigation into ...

Data mining the first two years of results from NASA’s Kepler planet-finding probe, using a statistical technique based on the discovery that multi-planet systems are more common than once thought, ...

Those results really are staggering. I feel fairly sorry for every other planet finding mission as well now; the number of planets found by Kepler is going to be truly huge. After all, they've only ...