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

After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel ...

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 prolific Kepler space telescope, which shut its powerful eye nearly five years ago, continued finding exoplanets even while taking its final breaths. A team of astrophysicists and citizen ...

Kepler's mission to find strange new worlds may be at an end after serious technical failures afflict NASA's famous space telescope. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

Engineers-turned-first responders nursed NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler observatory back to stable condition after it unexpectedly slipped into emergency mode 75 million miles from Earth last week, ...

NASA today said its star-gazing satellite Kepler has identified its first rocky planet orbiting a sun similar to our own — 560 light years from our solar system. While not in an area of space ...

NASA’s star gazing Kepler space telescope has discovered two Saturn-sized exoplanets that are crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star. In a teleconference today, NASA said in addition to ...

After three years of searching, scientists have caught the elusive phenomenon. — -- The "brilliant flash" that occurs when a star dies and explodes has been captured for the first time in visible ...

The Kepler probe's focus is on finding another habitable planet. — -- NASA says we're on our way to discovering Earth 2.0. The Kepler Space Telescope has located a planet and star closely ...

Launched by NASA in 2009, the Kepler space telescope was outfitted with equipment to discover and study Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way galaxy. It was named after the 17th century scientist and ...