The mission would take a statistical sample of stars to figure out how common planets – and specifically, Earth-like planets – are in the universe. The Kepler telescope launched on the early ...

NASA on Friday launched a telescope that will search our corner of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planets. The Kepler spacecraft blasted into space on top of a Delta II rocket from Cape ...

Kepler, launched in 2009, has already discovered more than 2,700 potential new planets, 132 of which have been identified. The first wheel failure happened last year, but the spacecraft could ...

AIM is a NASA satellite mission to study how polar mesospheric clouds form and why they vary. It was launched in 2007 and is still operational. LASP operates the mission and built two of the three ...

Kepler launched in March 2009 and stared at a small ... yet it will be an eminently more powerful mission. If Kepler's search area was like a shotgun blast, then that of TESS is an exploding ...

Her ambivalence didn’t prevent her from becoming the project scientist of NASA’s Kepler mission. Since 2009, Kepler has been looking for planets outside our solar system where life might flourish.

Kepler-47 is the first circumbinary multi-planet system discovered by the NASA's Kepler mission. It is located in Cygnus constellation and lies approximately 4,900 light-years away from Earth.

Support for MAST for non-HST data is provided by the NASA Science Mission Directorate via grant NNX13AC07G and by other grants and contracts. This paper includes data collected by the Kepler mission.