The Kepler spacecraft is in the final moments of its life. NASA isn’t quite sure when they’ll say their last goodbye to the space telescope which has confirmed the existence of thousands of ...

most assumed the mission would end. Even by that point, Kepler was an unqualified success and had provided us with enough data to keep astronomers busy for years. But an ingenious fix was devised ...

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 ...

Astronomers discover a fourth planet in Kepler-51, challenging planetary formation theories with new questions.

Caldwell is a Co-Investigator on the Kepler Mission, the Instrument Scientist for the Kepler Mission. He works at the Kepler Science Office on the whole instrument/detector system. Just 20 years ago, ...

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 literally thousands of new planets ...

Kepler’s FCC petition also covers the two pathfinder optical spacecraft launched last year and six radio frequency satellites supporting the company’s current business, providing connectivity ...

The object was spotted in data from Nasa's Kepler spacecraft, and later observed using the Hubble telescope. Astronomers David Kipping and Alex Teachey have published their results in Science ...

Jason Steffen, a professor of physics at UNLV and a member of the science team for the Kepler Space Telescope mission. This mission finally ended in 2018, but the discoveries keep coming.

Published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the new research by the University of Florida looks at data collected by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft between 2009 and ...

NASA’s search for exoplanets was through its Kepler spacecraft which observed thousands of stars to identify possible exoplanets lurking around. It would look for temporary decreases in the ...