Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a binary star system known as KIC 5623923. As a result ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have used data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope to discover a “vampire” star “sucking” the life out of another star. Experts discovered a surprising “super-outburst” from a dwarf nova, a ...

A review of early data returned by NASA's Kepler mission has revealed one of the most Earth-like exoplanets discovered so far. Located 300 light-years away, the new planet is slightly larger than our ...

The old Kepler satellite telescope ceased operations back in 2018. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided to retire the space tech after it ran out of fuel. Although this is the ...

NASA.GOV - Scientists using NASA's Kepler, a space telescope, recently discovered six planets made of a mix of rock and gases orbiting a single sun-like star, known as Kepler-11, which is located ...