The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on
7 November 2018
On 30 October, NASA announced that the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft is being shut down. Over almost a decade, it changed our views on our place in the universe
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Our best planet-hunting telescope has come to the end of its mission
30 October 2018
The Kepler Space Telescope has found thousands of planets beyond our solar system in the last decade. Now it has run out of fuel and will be turned off for good
NASA has discovered our solar system’s twin with 8 planets
14 December 2017
The Kepler telescope has revealed a new planet in a system like ours. It shares a star with 7 other planets, tying our record for most worlds in a solar system
We may have found 20 habitable worlds hiding in plain sight
30 October 2017
After taking another look at data from the Kepler space telescope’s original mission we have spotted 20 possible Earth-like worlds that could host life
Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern
28 June 2017
Data from the Kepler space telescope show that exoplanets tend to be similar in size to their neighbours and regularly spaced, no matter the size of their star
Kepler finds 219 new exoplanets and 10 are rocky and Earth-like
20 June 2017
NASA’s Kepler team has released its latest batch of planet candidates and they fall into two kinds: ones like Earth and those like mini-Neptunes
