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

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

By discovering more than 2,600 confirmed planets, Kepler launched a new era of exploration and redefined humanity’s place in the cosmos, said Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s astrophysics ...

NASA said Thursday that its Kepler spacecraft has spotted “Earth’s bigger, older cousin”: the first nearly Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star similar to our own.

For the first time, eight planets have been found orbiting a distant star, Kepler-90, 2,545 light-years from Earth in the Draco constellation, NASA announced Thursday.

The Kepler Space Telescope is almost out of fuel, which means its life is coming to an end, NASA announced today.The space agency says it put the planet-hunting spacecraft into a “hibernation ...

Spectacular revelations courtesy of Hubble 12:12. It's been two years since NASA's enormously successful planet-hunting Kepler mission ended, but its data is still surfacing new mysteries ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope points to 10 new planets in the habitable zone by Chelsey Ballarte on June 19, 2017 at 5:15 pm June 20, 2017 at 2:27 pm Share 78 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

CAPE CANAVERAL (CBSMiami/AP) — NASA'S Kepler space telescope may be down and out but the space agency isn't ready to call it quits completely. Thursday, NASA called off all attempts to fix its ...

Spotted by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, the strange light pattern emitted from the star has puzzled many over the years, ...

NASA's Kepler launched in 2009 on a mission to seek out exoplanets and it has since gathered evidence of planets that may be able to host alien life.. Kepler spots exoplanets by looking for a dip ...

NASA's Kepler mission has found a new planet, 600 light-years away, orbiting a star very much like the sun. Scientists say they've confirmed it is in the star's so-called habitable zone, where ...