Sep 3, 2024 · The Kepler space telescope was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, assigned to search a portion of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-sized planets orbiting stars outside our solar system.

Dec 20, 2022 · Kepler was a planet-hunting space telescope designed to discover Earth-size and larger planets orbiting in or near the habitable zones of their stars. Kepler surveyed our neighborhood in the Milky Way galaxy and, throughout its lifetime, observed over half a million stars, enabling the discovery of over 3,200 planets.

Oct 25, 2024 · NASA’s Kepler, the 10th in a series of low-cost, low-development-time and highly focused Discovery-class science missions, was designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in our region of the Milky Way.

Oct 30, 2018 · The Kepler space telescope was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, assigned to search a portion of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-sized planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. During nine…

Nov 8, 2024 · This slide compares the Kepler Space Telescope to the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space telescope.

Oct 25, 2018 · Meet the scientists, engineers and experts who worked with NASA’s Kepler space telescope mission. They helped download and analyze data from the historic spacecraft, leading to the discovery of thousands of planets around other stars.

Nov 26, 2013 · Kepler lost the second of four gyroscope-like reaction wheels in May, ending new data collection for the original mission. Using the sun and the two remaining working wheels, engineers have devised an innovative technique to stabilize and control the spacecraft in all three directions of motion.

Mar 6, 2019 · NASA’s Kepler space telescope, launched March 7, 2009, was developed to search for planets around other stars and quantify their abundance. But over more than nine years of operations the spacecraft opened worlds to us.

Oct 24, 2024 · Kepler-22 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 9.1 Earths, it takes 289.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.812 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2011.

Nov 16, 2018 · On the evening of Thursday, Nov. 15, NASA's Kepler space telescope received its final set of commands to disconnect communications with Earth. NASA’s Kepler space telescope discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system, and revealed that our galaxy contains more planets than stars.