Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

It’s a very good thing spacecraft can’t get bored, because if spacecraft could get bored, the Kepler space telescope would have gone out of its mind long ago. It was in March 2009 when NASA launched ...

NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which shut its powerful eye nearly five years ago, continued finding exoplanets even while taking its final breaths. A team of astrophysicists and citizen ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery in deep space — but not with an existing telescope or space probe. Combing through a backlog of data collected several years ago by NASA’s now defunct Kepler ...