According to the space agency, Kepler has run out of fuel in ... Since that time, NASA changed the craft's mission to adjust to the telescope's new normal, calling the updated mission K2.

In a new post, NASA reveals the telescope’s “Last Light ... when we’re used to seeing such lovely views of space, but Kepler’s mission was never to provide us with eye candy.

That spacecraft, the Kepler Space Telescope, remains humanity’s most ... astrophysicist Jason Steffen — who joined the mission a year before it launched in 2009 — relates the story of ...

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 space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

As The Verge notes, the Kepler Space Telescope was launched in 2009 with enough fuel to last for over six years. However, it extended well beyond its four-year mission and survived nine eventful ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. During this two-month campaign, Kepler ...

Most of them were discovered by the Kepler space telescope. Launched in 2009, its mission was to look for planets among the 150,000 stars in just a small portion of the galaxy – and it found them.