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 ...

Astronomers have detected molecules on exoplanet K2-18b that may have been produced by simple organisms, claiming it's the ...

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 ...

Yep. It's Axiom's datacenters in SPAAAAACE Axiom Space says it is planning to launch a pair of Orbital Data Center (ODC) ...

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 ...