I t’s a very good thing spacecraft can’t get bored, because if spacecraft could get bored, the Kepler space telescope would have gone out of its mind long ago. It was in March 2009 when NASA ...

NASA's Kepler telescope is still discovering new, distant exoplanets in our corner of the Milky Way, but oftentimes they're hard to visualise and easily forgotten about by some of us normal folk.

For more than nine-and-a-half years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope helped curious astronomers on their quest to identify distant worlds. These words, not from our solar system, are known to science as ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which launched in 2009 and revolutionized our vision of the galaxy and the universe over the past decade, is now permanently retired and out of service.

To the list of planets orbiting distant stars, add another 715. That’s the number of planets, strewn among 305 planetary systems, popping out of the observational data from NASA’s Kepler space ...

NASA officials on Tuesday announced that the Kepler Space Telescope has discovered 1,284 new planets, including some the same size as Earth. "This announcement more than doubles the number of ...

NASA's iconic Kepler space telescope — which has discovered 70 percent of the 3,750 exoplanets known to date — is running so low on fuel that the agency has put it into a hibernation-like ...

Get ready to pack your suitcases. NASA has created a series of beautiful vacation posters for exoplanets that will make you eager for recreational space travel to become a reality. The exoplanets ...

— -- The Kepler space telescope is now "stable," NASA said today, following an alarming discovery last week that found the planet-hunting probe had slipped into emergency mode, putting a ...

The Kepler space telescope's latest and most complete planet catalog adds 219 new candidates, including one that could be a close cousin to Earth. NASA's Kepler reveals 10 new potentially Earth ...