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

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 ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered 70 percent of the 3,800 confirmed alien worlds to date, has run out of fuel and signed off.

The Kepler space telescope launched in 2009. By the end of 2017, it had discovered more than 2,500 planets (yellow), about 70 percent of all exoplanets known.

NASA's Kepler telescope has been decommissioned after nine years of hunting for planets outside of our solar system. The mission was only expected to last 3.5 years but ended up successfully ...

Kepler isn't dead after all. Launched in 2009, the famous space telescope tasked with finding Earth-like planets has identified more than 1,000 exoplanets among 4,175 candidates it's discovered ...

The Kepler Space Telescope has run out of fuel and ended its 9.5-year career, just days after astronomers announced possible evidence of a moon orbiting an exoplanet.

The Kepler Telescope looks at a periodic, subtle dimming of distant stars that represents a slight blocking of sunlight as an orbiting planet passes between us and its parent star.

Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope’s demise Tuesday. Already well past its expected lifetime, the 9 1/2-year-old Kepler had been running low on fuel for months.

The Kepler Telescope Has Run Out of Fuel. How Will Its Planet-Hunting Legacy Live On? As Kepler’s watch over the cosmos ends, the quest to understand our place in the universe is just beginning.

The Kepler Space Telescope was focused on hunting for planets in this patch of the Milky Way. Without two of its four spinning reaction wheels, it can't keep its gaze on target.

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...