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Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered a new super-Earth using data collected during its “second life,” known as the K2 mission.

Health issues are jeopardizing the planet-hunting work of NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which has identified more than 2,700 potential alien worlds to date. Subscribe to read this story ...

Engineers-turned-first responders nursed NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler observatory back to stable condition after it unexpectedly slipped into emergency mode 75 million miles from Earth last week, ...

NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting space telescope resumed science operations March 20 after spending six days stuck in a protective safe mode while engineers studied the computer glitch. An anomaly ...

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star, the agency announced Thursday. Kepler-452b is the smallest planet ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The revolutionary planet-hunting activities of NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope have come ...

The Kepler Spacecraft has once again escaped equipment failures that threatened to doom the observatory, returning to its previous K2 mission. The observatory is designed to discover planets ...