Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

Since its launch in March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has provided us with an incredible amount of data about exoplanets within our galaxy, proving these worlds are more varied and numerous ...

The mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft is in peril. The space agency says a malfunction has disabled a reaction wheel that keeps Kepler's telescope pointed precisely at far-away planets ...

Powered by laser light, this tiny sail lays the groundwork for future advances in lightsail technology and the potential for ...

Caption This image from NASA's Kepler spacecraft shows members of the Pleiades star cluster taken during Campaign 4 of the K2 Mission. The cluster stretches across two of the 42 charge-coupled ...

The research team set out to study Kepler-51d, the third planet in the system, with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but almost missed their chance when the planet unexpectedly passed in ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...

the outermost of five such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. It is located about 1,200 light-years (370 parsecs, or nearly 1.135Ñ1016 km) from Earth in the constellation of Lyra.

Published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the new research by the University of Florida looks at data collected by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft between 2009 and ...

Say hello to "Earth 2.0." Thanks to NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, a world that could "conceivably harbor life" was found among the stars, sporting a "balmy temperature" of 72 degrees ...

The researchers chose the second option. Using a new method they developed, they analysed Kepler space telescope data on the fluctuations of more than 56,000 Sun-like stars during the period between ...