Since its launch in March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has provided us with ... spacecraft promise to improve our ability to directly image exoplanets, which to date has been very limited.

The Kepler Space Telescope was launched in 2009 to explore planets outside our solar system (known as exoplanets). During its 11-year mission, the telescope discovered an astonishing 2,600 ...

In the 35 years since the Hubble Space Telescope flew to space, it has taken pictures of comets, merging galaxies, planets, supernova remnants, and more. The first-of-its-kind telescope — a ...

Nearly seven months after leaving Earth and traveling a million miles to its orbital home, the James Webb Space Telescope is fully commissioned and sending back images captured from deep space.

NASA isn’t quite sure when they’ll say their last goodbye to the space telescope ... us to virtually image distant solar systems. As you might expect, for this to work Kepler must be able ...

Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on ...

which were first identified by NASA's pioneering Kepler space telescope. Before JWST, attempts to study the atmospheres of sub-Neptune planets using transmission spectra — the measurement of ...

Miami, Florida (CNN)-- Two planets slightly smaller than Saturn have been discovered orbiting a distant star, a first for NASA's Kepler space telescope, whose mission is to look for signs of ...

NASA's newest space telescope has officially begun snapping some incredible images of the cosmos about two months after it got off the ground. SPHEREx, which the U.S. space agency sent on a ...