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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

NASA is set to launch its latest mission, Pandora, in 2025 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. With the James ...

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 ...

The exoplanetary system is twice as distant as any seen previously by Kepler, which found over 2,700 ... NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope. Roman will find potentially thousands ...

Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone in deep space, unbound to ... to look for signals within the Kepler dataset. Dr ...

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John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for Nasa's Science Mission Directorate in Washington ... four years’ worth of data from Nasa's Kepler telescope. The Kepler telescope detects tiny ...