Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

That spacecraft, the Kepler Space Telescope, remains humanity’s most prolific planet hunter so far, having spied thousands of distant planets and many more candidate ones. In Hidden in the ...

Since that time, NASA changed the craft's mission to adjust to the telescope's new normal, calling the updated mission K2. And even though the mission is at an end, that doesn't mean Kepler's ...

It’s now been a few months since the Kepler space telescope bit the dust, but the work it did will still have an impact for a long time to come. In a new post, NASA reveals the telescope’s ...

As with many space telescope missions, Kepler's dataset is open to the public. NASA maintains a database with the raw data collected during the space telescope's observations, and researchers are ...

The investigation of light and optical properties stretches back centuries, at least to the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Mesopotamians. In fact, even artificial lenses date back to as early as ...

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...

This meant that new data reduction techniques had to be developed to look for signals within the Kepler dataset. Dr McDonald said: “These signals are extremely difficult to find. Our observations ...

New Delhi, Nov 01 (ANI): After over-working, the Kepler Space Telescope is finally taking its final nap. The spacecraft functioned more number of years than its fuel levels permitted and helped ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.