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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.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 ...

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 ...

NASA Kepler's Space Telescope ventured into worlds unknown to look for exoplanets that are in other systems and galaxies, and one of its earliest discoveries is the Kepler-1658b. Now, news regarding ...

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 ...