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

NASA said Thursday that its Kepler spacecraft has spotted the first nearly Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star similar to our own.

NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which discovered more than 2,680 exoplanets orbiting distant stars and allowed scientists to statistically show billions more must exist across the Milky Way, has finally ...

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

A detailed analysis of data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope has revealed an additional 219 possible planets orbiting distant suns, including 10 roughly Earth-size worlds in the ...

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

NASA on Thursday revealed the discovery of blazing-hot exoplanet Kepler-90i thanks to the use of a Google neural network trained to identify planets from the NASA Kepler space telescope's data.

For nearly a decade, NASA's Kepler space telescope has peered deep into the sky to reveal a universe teeming with previously unknown worlds around distant stars. But now the spacecraft that ...

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has been used to detect 219 new planet candidates, including 10 in the so-called habitable zones of the stars they orbit.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope’s dem… ...

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 ...

Astronomers announced today that they discovered 10 Earth-sized planets where life could potentially lurk with the help of the NASA Kepler space telescope.