NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is running on fumes and may have just sent its last round of data back to Earth in its final hooray to exoplanets. The spacecraft has been responsible for finding thousands of ...

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 ...

The most accomplished planet-hunting machine of all time will seek out strange new worlds no more. NASA decommissioned the Kepler space telescope last night (Nov. 15), beaming "goodnight" commands to ...

The time has come to say good night to NASA’s revolutionary Kepler space telescope. For nearly a decade, the intrepid planet-hunter has peered deep into the sky to reveal a universe teeming with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's putting up a good fight. The Kepler space telescope might be dying, but according to NASA, it’s not dead yet. The space ...

The space telescope, which revealed a universe full of planets that might be similar to our own, is now retired. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy ...

"As NASA's first planet-hunting mission, Kepler has wildly exceeded all our expectations and paved the way for our exploration and search for life in the solar system and beyond," Thomas Zurbuchen, ...

Kepler-16b orbits it's two stars. NASA's Kepler Mission discovered the world orbiting two Stars, the larger a K dwarf and the smaller a red dwarf. (Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle via Getty Images) ...

The Kepler wake-up whipsaw continues. NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,650 alien planets to date, emerged from yet another slumber Thursday (Oct. 11), agency officials ...

NASA announced Tuesday that Kepler, an orbital telescope that’s been spotting and analyzing distant planets for the past nine years, has run out of fuel and will no longer carry out scientific ...

All eyes these days may be on NASA's shiny new exoplanet hunter TESS, but the group's Kepler space telescope still has some life left in it. The aging spacecraft is one again up and running and, in a ...

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has delivered groundbreaking data to the science community during its remarkable nine-year journey. Its hunt for Earth-like planets in habitable zones of stars has not only ...