Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

Kepler lived a fruitful life by any metric, but it hasn’t been an easy one. Too far into deep space for us to repair it as we did Hubble, hardware failures aboard the observatory nearly brought ...

The research team set out to study Kepler-51d ... including with the Hubble Space Telescope and the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory telescope, and obtained archival ...

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 ...

This image from NASA's Kepler spacecraft shows members of the Pleiades star cluster taken during Campaign 4 of the K2 Mission. The cluster stretches across two of the 42 charge-coupled devices ...

While admittedly a tough environment for an observatory, this antipodal location offers ... In addition, Doug is also the Instrument Scientist for NASA’s Kepler Mission, an ambitious, space-borne ...

Kepler launched in March 2009 and stared ... of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be the largest observatory ever launched into space. JWST will take pictures in infrared light, which is ...

As with many space telescope missions, Kepler's dataset is open to the public. NASA maintains a database with the raw data collected during the space telescope's observations, and researchers are ...