As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and ...

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is critically damaged, threatening to prematurely end the world’s most successful planet-hunting mission. The second of four reactor wheels that point the telescope ...

(CNN)-- Calling it a mission that may fundamentally change humanity's view of itself, NASA on Friday launched a telescope that will search our corner of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planets.

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 ...

Axiom, one of a handful of commercial space station technology developers, has entered a strategic collaboration with Kepler, ...

His small and relatively simple spacecraft, Kepler, will employ a revolutionary technique called transit photometry, which precisely counts photons from a star’s light to detect periodic dips.

https://doi.org/10.1086/667603 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/667603 ABSTRACT.The Kepler spacecraft has collected data of high photometric precision and ...

An astronomer has released a recording of a chorus of massive stars using data from NASA's Kepler probe. The natural pulse of the stars' light waves, which is interpreted as humming, provide new ...