CAPE CANAVERAL/HOUSTON—NASA’s pioneering Kepler space telescope, which detected thousands of planets beyond the Solar System and raised the prospect that worlds beyond Earth may support life, is out ...

Pluribus Episode 8 reveals the hive mind’s master plan, and it may have started long before the signal from Kepler-22b.

Astronomers evaluating data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have discovered two Saturn-sized gas giants orbiting a star in the first application of a technique that may help them find habitable ...

NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet transiting the same star. Today's announcement of the discovery of the two planets, Kepler 9b and 9c ...

Take one Sun-like star, two scant Saturns, one maybe-Earth, and combine over high heat, and you've got Kepler-9, the latest addition to our growing catalog of planetary systems and the first sample of ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft, whose powerful telescope is scanning the stars in the Milky Way, has discovered two giant planets with abruptly changing orbits around their star that could offer insights ...

Scientists at the Chandra X-ray observatory have produced an image of the Kepler’s supernova remnants over 16,000 light years away from Earth. Scientists at the Chandra X-ray observatory have produced ...

A Sun-like star with six orbiting planets has been discovered by the Kepler spacecraft in what NASA researchers are proclaiming as the biggest discovery in their field since the first exoplanet was ...

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NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet transiting the same star. Today’s announcement of the discovery of the two planets, Kepler 9b and 9c ...