Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...
NASA's elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope's demise Tuesday. Already well past its ...
NASA has captured 25 years of observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory showing the aftermath of Kepler’s Supernova, a ...
“Supernova explosions and the elements they hurl into space are the lifeblood of new stars and planets,” said Brian Williams ...
Space-watchers saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, but now it’s official: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, by far the most successful planet-hunting telescope in history, isn’t coming back. Engineers ...
At this time last year, the scientists working on Kepler, NASA’s fantastically successful planet-hunting space telescope, were ecstatic. The probe, launched in 2009, had originally been given just ...
It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.