The Kepler Space Telescope, launched March 6, 2009, was designed to search the Milky Way for exoplanets. Using the transit ...

NASA is marking two milestones in the search for planets like Earth: the successful completion of the Kepler Space Telescope’s 3.5-year prime mission and the beginning of an extended mission that ...

After nearly a decade of groundbreaking exploration, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope concluded its mission, leaving a lasting ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test. The thermal vacuum test is part of a series of environmental tests ...

Today the Kepler team is announcing another member of the Kepler-10 family, called Kepler-10c . It has a radius of 2.2 times that of Earth’s, and it orbits the star every 45 days. Both Kepler-10b and ...

Anyone who's ever tried to make a perfect snowball has some inkling how difficult it is to create a sphere. Even nature has a hard time of it. But a star discovered by NASA's Kepler Mission, dubbed ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has spotted 503 new potential alien worlds, some of which may be capable of supporting life as we know it. "Some of these new planet candidates are small and some reside in ...

Scientists using NASA's Kepler spacecraft (see photo) to look for planets around other stars have been “surprised by the universe,” and the value of those surprises has earned the mission a four-year ...

Natalie Batalha, a former project scientist for NASA’s Kepler Mission, will lead the audience on a journey to the stars, providing insight into future missions to search for lives beyond the Earth in ...

Days after they declared a spacecraft emergency over the Kepler space telescope, NASA engineers say the craft has now recovered and that they're working to figure out what happened. Kepler, which is ...

AMES, Iowa – An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system ...

NASA’s Kepler mission successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II at 10:49 p.m. EST, Friday. Kepler is designed to find the ...