The Kepler telescope is amazing, but so was it’s namesake, Johannes Kepler. David K. Love, a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, has brilliantly chronicled Kepler’s life and principle ...

Kepler-1658b, which orbits its host star every 3.8 Earth days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope nearly 10 years ago. (Image credit: Gabriel Perez Diaz ...

Rather, Kepler team members will beam a single, simple command to the sun-orbiting planet hunter, triggering a decommissioning sequence that's already aboard the spacecraft.

"Kepler-11 is a remarkable system whose architecture and dynamics provide clues about its formation," Jack Lissauer, a Kepler science team member at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field ...

An artist's rendition of Kepler 452b. The newfound planet is estimated to be 60 percent larger than Earth, and resides in a year-long orbit in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star some 1,400 ...

“The Kepler-11 planetary system is amazing,” said Jack Lissauer, a planetary scientist and a Kepler science team member at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.