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

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

The $600 million Kepler telescope was launched in 2009 with the expectation that it would operate for a year. In the early days, an important part of Kepler operations was eliminating false positives.

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

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

The Kepler telescope, which was designed to search for planets like those found in the Kepler-385 system, stopped its primary observations in 2013, and conducted an extended mission until 2018.

And, because NASA’s now-retired Kepler space telescope discovered it, it proves that even older data has more information to reveal if we look back at it. An illustration showing the orbits of ...

The Kepler Telescope looks at a periodic, subtle dimming of distant stars that represents a slight blocking of sunlight as an orbiting planet passes between us and its parent star.

Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope’s demise Tuesday. Already well past its expected lifetime, the 9 1/2-year-old Kepler had been running low on fuel for months.

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 ...

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 ...

Data squeeze. In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler telescope into space, where it followed the Earth's orbit and continuously monitored millions of stars in a patch of the northern sky.