When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

After 9 years of observations, the Kepler space telescope showed us that on average, every star has at least one planet.

NASA's crippled Kepler Space Telescope could serve K2, a potential mission to look for short period planets, supernovae, proto-stars and galaxy clusters ...

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 ...

NASA's Kepler telescope has been decommissioned after nine years of hunting for planets outside of our solar system. The mission was only expected to last 3.5 years but ended up successfully ...

NASA announced that the Kepler space telescope has spotted some 1200 planets in a four-month period of observation, including 68 Earth-size planets.

Kepler hunts for Earth-like planets in the Milky Way Galaxy and since launching in 2009 has found over a thousand planets. The planet-hunting telescope monitors the brightness of stars and looks ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Telescope has spotted the first roughly Earth-sized world orbiting in the "Goldilocks zone" of another star – offering perhaps the best bet so far for life elsewhere ...

NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope is out of fuel and will be decommissioned in the next week or two. What will the planet hunter's end be like?

Kepler isn't dead after all. Launched in 2009, the famous space telescope tasked with finding Earth-like planets has identified more than 1,000 exoplanets among 4,175 candidates it's discovered ...

Astronomers have discovered the existence of a rare seven-planet system now known as Kepler-385 while looking at Kepler telescope data.