Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of three exoplanets next to a diagram of the kepler space telescope. NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which ...

All good things must come to an end, on Earth and even in space. NASA announced on Tuesday that the Kepler mission — which has transformed how we understand planets outside of our solar system — is ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...

The Kepler spacecraft is in the final moments of its life. NASA isn’t quite sure when they’ll say their last goodbye to the space telescope which has confirmed the existence of thousands of exoplanets ...

The most accomplished planet-hunting machine of all time will seek out strange new worlds no more. NASA decommissioned the Kepler space telescope last night (Nov. 15), beaming "goodnight" commands to ...

Three months after Kepler was crippled by a second failed gyroscope, NASA has decided to cease attempts at fixing the space telescope. NASA is now looking at whether scientific data can still be ...