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 ...

Launched by NASA in 2009, the Kepler space telescope was outfitted with equipment to discover and study Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way galaxy. It was named after the 17th century scientist and ...

Kepler, NASA’s vaunted planet-hunting space telescope, has run out of maneuvering fuel and is being retired, the space agency announced on Tuesday. In an undated handout photo, the Kepler telescope is ...

FILE - This file artist's rendering provided by NASA shows the Kepler space telescope. The Kepler spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control the telescope's orientation in space, NASA said ...

Artists's rendering of the Kepler space telescope in orbit. (NASA image) Three wheels won't get your car very far, but three is apparently good enough for NASA's $550 million planet-finding Kepler ...

In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, Nasa said on Monday the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system.