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 ...

(CNN)-- The U.S. space agency NASA will launch its first ever mission Friday to find Earth-like planets in our region of the Milky Way. Scientists will be holding their breath as the Kepler ...

A new set of data released by NASA's Kepler mission catalogs 219 newfound alien planet candidates. According to NASA, 10 of the new worlds appear to be rocky in the habitable zones of their stars ...

As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and ...

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 ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

The exoplanetary system is twice as distant as any seen previously by Kepler, which found ... Later this decade NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope. Roman will find potentially ...

NASA is set to launch its latest mission ... While JWST and previous missions like Kepler have discovered thousands of exoplanets, long-duration observations remain a challenge.

NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the ... The Kepler telescope is currently in an extended mission phase after already completing its primary mission and discovering thousands ...

In addition, Doug is also the Instrument Scientist for NASA’s Kepler Mission, an ambitious, space-borne telescope that has examined over one hundred thousand stars and found thousands of planets, many ...

US space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is preparing to launch its mission moon on February 26. The spacecraft Nova-C lander ‘Athena’ on a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...