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Scientists find a likely Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star
Scientists find an Earth-like planet hiding in old Kepler data
Kepler beams back final image from its almost decade-long journey
NASA bid a bittersweet farewell to its Kepler spacecraft in October. During its nine-and-a-half year journey, the space telescope spotted more than 2,600 planets outside of our solar system. Not bad for a mission that was initially expected to last 3...
Researchers propose guiding large space telescopes with tiny satellites
Using the recently retired Kepler space telescope, scientists have confirmed thousands of exoplanets, and as its successor TESS ramps up its search, we're poised to discover plenty more. But once we find exoplanets, learning more detailed information...
Kepler Telescope Witnesses the First Moments of a Dying Star in Detail
When a massive star nears the end of its life, it explodes as supernova. The supernova explosion is an extremely bright event and can be seen in distant galaxies. However, very little is known about...
Kepler Telescope Witnesses the First Moments of a Dying Star in Detail
When a massive star nears the end of its life, it explodes as supernova. The supernova explosion is an extremely bright event and can be seen in distant galaxies. However, very little is known about...
NASA bids Kepler ‘goodnight’ with last set of commands
The Kepler Space Telescope has officially gone to sleep for good. On November 15th, the death anniversary of its namesake German astronomer Johannes Kepler, its ground team sent it a series of "goodnight" commands. They were meant to disable the tele...
NASA bids Kepler ‘goodnight’ with last set of commands
The Kepler Space Telescope has officially gone to sleep for good. On November 15th, the death anniversary of its namesake German astronomer Johannes Kepler, its ground team sent it a series of "goodnight" commands. They were meant to disable the tele...
Kepler Telescope is Dead after Finding Thousands of Alien Worlds
After nine years traveling through space, NASA’s elite planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler is finally dead. Kepler telescope had been running low on fuel for months. However, recently NASA’s Kepler team...