Data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope has been crunched using Artificial Intelligence, helping scientists discover a new planet outside our solar system. Experts harnessed machine learning ...

For more than nine-and-a-half years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope helped curious astronomers on their quest to identify distant worlds. These words, not from our solar system, are known to science as ...

Although the science mission of its successor, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now underway, NASA isn't done with the Kepler Space Telescope just yet. Its scientists have awoken ...

In 2009, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a space telescope with the mission to find planets outside of our own solar system. Eight years later, it’s done just that. Since its launch, the Kepler ...

NASA engineers have successfully recovered the Kepler spacecraft from emergency mode, the space agency announced Monday. The spacecraft, which is nearly 75 million miles away and responsible for ...

NASA experienced a close call this weekend with its planet-seeking Kepler space telescope. On April 7 th, during a scheduled contact, mission operations engineers discovered that Kepler was in ...

An artist’s conception highlights the worlds detected by NASA’s Kepler probe. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Illustration) Astronomers say they’ve used NASA’s Kepler space telescope to discover 10 Earth-sized ...

When you think of what's out there in the vast recesses of space, glorious images of galaxies, stars, and new worlds probably leap to mind. A combination of the greatest images from Hubble and some ...

NASA announced the latest findings Monday in its hunt for friendly exoplanets, and the haul includes 219 new candidates. Of those, 10 are potentially rocky and located in the habitable zones of their ...

NASA has called a press conference to reveal a breakthrough discovery from its alien-hunting Kepler telescope. The discovery was driven by Google's machine-learning artificial intelligence software.

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 run ...

Researchers used data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope to discover an eighth planet orbiting a star known as Kepler-90. The planet, dubbed Kepler-90i, is a hot, rocky planet that ...