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Our best planet-hunting telescope has come to the end of its mission

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

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
artist's impression of an exoplanet

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

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