NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope is out of fuel and will be decommissioned in the next week or two. What will the planet hunter's end be like?

When NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, its mission was clear: to explore the stars and uncover distant ...

The space agency has approved a new mission called K2 for Kepler. The telescope's original exoplanet hunt came to an end in May 2013 when the second of the spacecraft's four reaction wheels failed ...

NASA’s storied Kepler Space Telescope—the craft which has discovered thousands of exoplanets since its launch in 2009—is entering the retirement phase of its lifespan.

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 announced on Tuesday that the Kepler Space Telescope is out of fuel and is at the end of its mission.

NASA’s $600 million Kepler space telescope, which is more or less running on thruster fuel fumes nearly a decade after its launch in 2009, woke up from a four-week hibernation phase on Thursday ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

NASA was forced to plan for the inevitable death of the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope a few weeks ago. The spacecraft, which had already discovered … ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

A new discovery by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a new planet in the Kepler-51 system. The Kepler-51 system is a cluster known for its "super-puff" planets with densities ...

NASA has just released a new documentary about the most powerful space telescope ever built, and you can watch it now.