Launched from Cape Canaveral on March 7th, 2009, NASA’s Kepler telescope has helped in the search for planets outside of the solar system (called exoplanets). In its short life, Kepler has discovered ...

Could we be on the verge of finding a second Earth? Astronomers are searching the galaxy for a world that could support life ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

Why are “super-puff” exoplanets so intriguing? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of scientists investigated a unique ...

NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday. Already well past its ...

The most prolific planet-hunting machine in history has signed off. NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered 70 percent of the 3,800 confirmed alien worlds to date, has run out of fuel, ...

NASA said its orbiting Kepler telescope has spotted two planets the size of Earth orbiting another star, although both are far too hot to sustain life. The discovery does, however, bring scientists a ...