Kepler's role as the leading exoplanet-hunting space telescope was taken over by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which was launched on April 18, 2018 and completed its primary ...

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

American space agency NASA announced the discovery of a planetary system that isn't flat, has transit timing variations, and shows orbital planes tilting ...

The $600 million Kepler mission launched in March 2009. During Kepler's four-year primary mission, the telescope stared at about 150,000 stars simultaneously, watching for planetary transits.

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

The Kepler space telescope can no longer search for planets orbiting other stars, ending its nearly 10-year mission, officials from the agency announced in a news conference on October 30.

But even as the Kepler mission comes to a close, NASA’s next planet-hunting space telescope is already scouring the skies for planets around 200,000 nearby stars.

Ames manages the Kepler and K2 missions for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, managed Kepler mission development.