kepler space telescope

What is going on with this strange, winking star?

NASA’s venerable Kepler space telescope, which discovered nearly 2,700 exoplanets in distant star systems, has…

Unwilling to go quietly into that good night, the Kepler Space Telescope is once again gathering scientific…

NASA’s storied Kepler Space Telescope—the craft which has discovered thousands of exoplanets since its launch in…

There are eight planets in our Solar System (sorry Pluto), but collectively, these planets host over 175 moons, one…

If all goes according to plan, NASA’s new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, will launch today at 6:32…

Supernovae produce some of the most powerful explosions in the cosmos, expelling a doomed star’s contents at…

The space-based telescope responsible for detecting 2,245 exoplanets, and another 2,342 yet to be confirmed, is…

Kepler is the gift that keeps on giving. After suffering a major malfunction five years ago, the rejiggered…

For the first time in history, a crowdsourced team of amateur citizen scientists has discovered a multi-planetary…

Amid considerable hype of its own making, NASA is announcing the discovery an eighth planet around the distant solar…

NASA’S Kepler Space telescope might have gotten a new lease on life in 2014 when scientists figured out how to…

The Kepler Space Telescope has found over 1,000 confirmed exoplanets. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Kep…

I'm enchanted by Alex Parker's visualization of the planets discovered by the first phase of the Kepler Space…

Using a new verification technique, Kepler scientists have confirmed the existence of 715 new exoplanets — four of…

It would appear that news of Kepler's demise has been greatly exaggerated. The planet-hunting space telescope, which…

NASA’s Kepler space telescope is busted and it may never work normally again. But during its four years of exemplary…

Yet another piece of evidence that our world is not as unique as we feared: There's a solar system out there that's…

Scientific American has launched a nifty new app that lets you explore exoplanets - planets outside our own solar…

Exoplanet Kepler-19b orbits its star in ways that violate the laws of physics, speeding up and slowing down its…