As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and ...

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 ...

Thanks to Kepler's data, which was all safely beamed back to Earth before the end of the mission, we now know that planets are, in fact, exceedingly common. The spacecraft is responsible for ...

So spare a thought for Kepler, which taught us more about distant worlds than any spacecraft before it. The telescope will now drift around for a while with its empty fuel tank, and we hope it has ...

Discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, Kepler-442b is a super-Earth, meaning it’s larger than Earth ...

(CNN)-- Calling it a mission that may fundamentally change humanity's view of itself, NASA on Friday launched a telescope that will search our corner of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planets.

Launched in March 2009, the Kepler Spacecraft has found well over 4000 potential planets and the number of confirmed planets is now approaching 1000. Eking out planet signals in the Kepler Data has ...

New Delhi, Nov 01 (ANI): After over-working, the Kepler Space Telescope is finally taking its final nap. The spacecraft functioned more number of years than its fuel levels permitted and helped ...