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NASA’s premier planet-hunting space telescope is out of gas. The Kepler space telescope can no longer search for planets orbiting other stars, ending its nearly 10-year mission, officials from the ...

A decade after being found, the first exoplanet candidate spotted by the Kepler space telescope has been confirmed as a real world. The planet orbits a star initially dubbed KOI 4, for Kepler Object ...

NASA has announced that its groundbreaking Kepler telescope, which has discovered thousands of planets outside our Solar System, is nearing its end. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

A planet 1,200 light years away is one of the best candidates for life that we've ever discovered. It's called Kepler-62f, and it's so far away that we can't tell many details about it. But a team of ...

Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, a team of researchers, led by astronomers at San Diego State University, detected the new Neptune-to-Saturn-size planet orbiting between two previously ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...

Data from the Kepler Space Telescope reveals a planet that hits the triumvirate of being just right: It's the right size in the right place, and is circling a star similar to our sun. Eric Mack has ...

As exciting as it was, the recent discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system and its seven potentially habitable planets still left scientists with plenty of questions. One area where they were really left in ...