The Kepler Space Telescope has been paramount in these ... the notion of being alone in the universe. Each potential “second Earth” discovery fuels the human imagination influencing everything ...

No world of that size and type has been directly imaged by a telescope, and doing so will require a very large light-collecting “bucket” placed beyond Earth’s obscuring atmosphere.

The mission of NASA's Kepler ... Kepler's telescope pointed precisely at far-away planets, a glitch that could, conceivably, put an end to Kepler's search for possibly habitable, Earth-like ...

It could measure these radial velocities down to a few hundred meters per second, but Jupiter’s ... its disk. The Kepler telescope, launched in 2009, is one of those few astronomical tools ...

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope ...