A new instrument being built by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for use in the Canary Islands will help NASA’s planet-scouting Kepler spacecraft confirm and characterize potential ...

The search for planets outside our solar system continues to heat up. NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates; however, confirming them remains a challenge. In some ...

One of NASA’s most popular and successful missions has hit a disabling technical snag, the agency announced Wednesday. A reaction wheel on the Kepler spacecraft has become stuck, say NASA engineers.

A new instrument being built by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for use in the Canary Islands will help NASA's planet-scouting Kepler spacecraft confirm and characterize potential ...

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has two new contracts to build instruments for NASA spacecraft. NASA Ames Research Center awarded Ball an initial $13.4-million contract to design and build a ...

A planet-hunting mission with strong Boulder ties on Wednesday announced the discovery of the smallest planet ever identified outside our solar system, tagged with the less-than-celestial name ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — The Kepler space telescope will be unable to achieve all of its mission goals unless NASA doubles the mission's length, say scientists working with the prolific planet-hunting ...

Today should be a historic moment for the field of astronomy. With a single data release, the team behind NASA’s Kepler instrument has nearly doubled the number of extrasolar planets we’re aware of, ...