Goodbye, Kepler Space Telescope
NASA’s venerable Kepler space telescope, which discovered nearly 2,700 exoplanets in distant star systems, has…
Deteriorating Kepler Space Telescope Refuses to Die
Unwilling to go quietly into that good night, the Kepler Space Telescope is once again gathering scientific…
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Is Running Out of Fuel and May Not Have Much More Time
NASA’s storied Kepler Space Telescope—the craft which has discovered thousands of exoplanets since its launch in…
Watch NASA'S New Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite Launch Aboard a SpaceX Rocket Right Here [Update: Launch Delayed]
If all goes according to plan, NASA’s new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, will launch today at 6:32 pm…
Rare Type of Supernova Extinguishes Star at Unprecedented Speed
Supernovae produce some of the most powerful explosions in the cosmos, expelling a doomed star’s contents at velocities…
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Has Only a Few Months to Live
The space-based telescope responsible for detecting 2,245 exoplanets, and another 2,342 yet to be confirmed, is running…
Kepler Astronomers Discover Treasure Trove of New Exoplanets
Kepler is the gift that keeps on giving. After suffering a major malfunction five years ago, the rejiggered space-based…
Star System With Five Rocky Planets Discovered by Amateur Astronomers
For the first time in history, a crowdsourced team of amateur citizen scientists has discovered a multi-planetary…
NASA Announces Eighth Planet Around Distant Star, Tying Our Own Solar System
Amid considerable hype of its own making, NASA is announcing the discovery an eighth planet around the distant solar…
The Kepler Space Telescope Is Broken Again
NASA’S Kepler Space telescope might have gotten a new lease on life in 2014 when scientists figured out how to…
Kepler Breaks The 1,000-Planet Barrier With More Confirmed Discoveries
The Kepler Space Telescope has found over 1,000 confirmed exoplanets. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Kepler…
This is the Prettiest Visualization of Kepler's Planets Yet!
I'm enchanted by Alex Parker's visualization of the planets discovered by the first phase of the Kepler Space…
NASA Confirms the Existence of 715 New Exoplanets
Using a new verification technique, Kepler scientists have confirmed the existence of 715 new exoplanets — four of…
The Kepler Space Telescope has lived to see another day – and planet!
It would appear that news of Kepler's demise has been greatly exaggerated. The planet-hunting space telescope, which…
Revisiting Kepler’s Most Mind-Blowing Discoveries
NASA’s Kepler space telescope is busted and it may never work normally again. But during its four years of exemplary…
No, this isn't the twin of our solar system — but it's proof that our planetary orbits aren't a "fluke"
Yet another piece of evidence that our world is not as unique as we feared: There's a solar system out there that's…
Now You Can Journey to the Exoplanets (and Create Your Own) on Your iPad
Scientific American has launched a nifty new app that lets you explore exoplanets - planets outside our own solar…
Exoplanet's impossible orbit reveals "invisible" companion
Exoplanet Kepler-19b orbits its star in ways that violate the laws of physics, speeding up and slowing down its orbit…
Every exoplanet orbiting every star discovered by the Kepler telescope
This amazing image takes all 1,235 of the candidate planets spotted by NASA's Kepler telescope, and then shows them in…