NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday. Already well past its ...
On March 7, 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope took off from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta II rocket. For almost a decade, the space telescope expanded our understanding of the universe before it ...
Although astronomers have directly imaged a few dozen gas giants on the scale of Jupiter, Earth-sized planets are too small and dim to be directly imaged. That's not to say there's a shortage of Earth ...
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Astronomers think they found what looks like a frozen twin of Earth 146 light-years away
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is no longer operating, but its data still has surprises. Astronomers re-checking observations from Kepler’s extended K2 mission have identified what looks like a small ...
Why are “super-puff” exoplanets so intriguing? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of scientists investigated a unique ...
Something is hiding inside Kepler-51d, and it’s doing a remarkably good job of it. About 2,615 light-years away in the ...
NASA's planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has just discovered Kepler-452b, a planet that scientists are calling "Earth 2.0." Scientists said in a press conference Thursday that they ...
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