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

NASA's Kepler spacecraft is running out of fuel, giving the planet-hunting observatory a few months for one last maneuver. "Trailing Earth's orbit at 94 million miles away, the Kepler space telescope ...

NASA’s elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope’s demise Tuesday. Already well past its ...

Space-watchers saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, but now it’s official: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, by far the most successful planet-hunting telescope in history, isn’t coming back. Engineers ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope discovered a system of seven "sweltering" planets surrounding a star that's hotter than our own sun. According ...

An orrery is a moving model of a planetary system. Daniel Fabrycky, University of California at Santa Cruz, created two animated orrerys to display the 1,235 Kepler planet candidates. 1,235 Planet ...

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of NASA's Spacecraft Kepler. Its four-year mission is to explore strange new worlds, and pretty much the rest of that famous "Star Trek" intro line.

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 ...