The Kepler telescope was initially set to launch in 2006, but ended up being pushed back to 2009 as the spacecraft design and development proceeded and the Discovery program worked through issues ...

Since that time, NASA changed the craft's mission to adjust to the telescope's new normal, calling the updated mission K2. And even though the mission is at an end, that doesn't mean Kepler's ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

As with many space telescope missions, Kepler's dataset is open to the public. NASA maintains a database with the raw data collected during the space telescope's observations, and researchers are ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the purpose of finding new objects ...

The Kepler spacecraft is in the final moments of its life. NASA isn’t quite sure when they’ll say their last goodbye to the space telescope which has confirmed the existence of thousands of ...

NASA's alien planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope is pretty good at its job, a new statistical analysis suggests. In total, the study, published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal, validates ...

Since the launch of the Kepler telescope and observatory in 2009, our understanding of the universe has dramatically advanced in just over five years. Kepler's primary mission is to search for ...

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...

The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...

Kepler's advance created a new challenge, however. Because his telescope offered a much greater field of view, astronomers had plenty of room to improve magnification. One way to do that ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...