It’s now been a few months since the Kepler space telescope bit the dust ... “Due to the modular design, the losses did not impact the rest of the instrument.” So spare a thought for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All good things must come to an end, on Earth and even in space ... telescope's new normal, calling the updated mission K2. And even though the mission is at an end, that doesn't mean Kepler's ...

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 ...

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 mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft is in peril. The space agency says a malfunction has disabled a reaction wheel that keeps Kepler's telescope pointed precisely at far-away planets, a glitch ...

The Keplerian design does have the downside of producing ... Fortunately, it's not our only orbital telescope. The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first ...

The Kepler telescope detects tiny dips in the brightness of stars as planets pass between them and Earth and once these are spotted, other techniques are used to verify exoplanets, such as changes ...