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 demise Tuesday. Already well past its ...

After nearly a decade of groundbreaking exploration, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope concluded its mission, leaving a lasting legacy in the search for exoplanets. The spacecraft, which confirmed the ...

Launched from Cape Canaveral on March 7th, 2009, NASA’s Kepler telescope has helped in the search for planets outside of the solar system (called exoplanets). In its short life, Kepler has discovered ...

AMES, Iowa – An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system ...

Astronomers could multiply the known catalog of planets outside our solar system by a factor of roughly 16 in a single ...

Artists's rendering of the Kepler space telescope in orbit. (NASA image) Three wheels won't get your car very far, but three is apparently good enough for NASA's $550 million planet-finding Kepler ...

FILE - This file artist's rendering provided by NASA shows the Kepler space telescope. The Kepler spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control the telescope's orientation in space, NASA said ...