For NASA's Kepler space telescope, the world will end in ice rather than fire. Kepler, which is responsible for 70 percent of the roughly 3,800 confirmed exoplanet discoveries to date, has closed ...

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

Related: NASA's Kepler space telescope finds hundreds of new exoplanets, boosts total to 4,034. The K2 mission ended up lasting as long as the primary mission, ...

All good things must come to an end, on Earth and even in space. NASA announced on Tuesday that the Kepler mission — which has transformed how we understand planets outside of our solar system ...

Celebrating one year of images from the James Webb Space Telescope 05:47. Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets ...

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

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 … ...

And, because NASA’s now-retired Kepler space telescope discovered it, it proves that even older data has more information to reveal if we look back at it. An illustration showing the orbits of ...

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 ...

Data squeeze. In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler telescope into space, where it followed the Earth's orbit and continuously monitored millions of stars in a patch of the northern sky.