Although the science mission of its successor, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now underway, NASA isn't done with the Kepler Space Telescope just yet. Its scientists have awoken ...

Data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope has been crunched using Artificial Intelligence, helping scientists discover a new planet outside our solar system. Experts harnessed machine learning ...

After nearly a decade of groundbreaking exploration, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope concluded its mission, leaving a lasting legacy in the search for exoplanets. The spacecraft, which confirmed the ...

For more than nine-and-a-half years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope helped curious astronomers on their quest to identify distant worlds. These words, not from our solar system, are known to science as ...

In 2009, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a space telescope with the mission to find planets outside of our own solar system. Eight years later, it’s done just that. Since its launch, the Kepler ...

When you think of what's out there in the vast recesses of space, glorious images of galaxies, stars, and new worlds probably leap to mind. A combination of the greatest images from Hubble and some ...

An artist’s conception highlights the worlds detected by NASA’s Kepler probe. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Illustration) Astronomers say they’ve used NASA’s Kepler space telescope to discover 10 Earth-sized ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which discovered more than 2,680 exoplanets orbiting distant stars and allowed scientists to statistically show billions more must exist across the Milky Way, has finally run ...

NASA has called a press conference to reveal a breakthrough discovery from its alien-hunting Kepler telescope. The discovery was driven by Google's machine-learning artificial intelligence software.

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Researchers used data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope to discover an eighth planet orbiting a star known as Kepler-90. The planet, dubbed Kepler-90i, is a hot, rocky planet that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This story was updated at 2:45 p.m. EDT. NASA has unveiled the complete set of data from the ...