Kepler has been searching for signs of supernovae among 50 trillion stars in 500 distant galaxies every 30 minutes for the past three years, according to the Ames Research Center.

The Kepler Space Telescope has spotted more than 2,700 potential exoplanets since its launch in 2009, ... The new findings will be published in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal.

Kepler-11 is a sun-like star around which six orbiting planets have so far been discovered. At times, two or more planets pass in front of the star at once, as shown in this artist’s conception ...

Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery in the Kepler-139 star system, uncovering an alien planet that had previously ...

But Kepler kept observing for an additional two years before the second of its four reaction wheels, which are needed to accurately point the telescope, failed in May 2013 (SN: 6/15/13, p. 10).

Nasa has discovered 1,284 exoplanets, 550 of which could be rocky planets similar to Earth. Using data from the Kepler Space Telescope, a team of astronomers analysed 7,056 detected objects, 4,302 ...

Data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope has been crunched using Artificial Intelligence, helping scientists discover a new planet outside our solar system. Experts harnessed machine learning ...

Kepler-1658b, orbiting with a period of just 3.8 days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by the Kepler space telescope in 2009. In 2019, astrophysicist Ashley Chontos used sound waves ...

This makes it 35 times the mass of Earth and a year on its planet lasts 355 days, the discoverers noted in their findings ...

In 2009, NASA's groundbreaking Kepler mission identified its first potential exoplanet. Now, ten years later, the discovery of the planet—now known as Kepler-1658-b—has finally been confirmed ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope may be hobbled, but scientists continue to pull new discoveries from its huge dataset. The space agency will announce more findings by Kepler — whose original ...

NASA's Charlie Sobeck, former manager of the Kepler Space Telescope mission, discusses the monumental findings of the spacecraft and NASA's decision to retire it in orbit.