There could be as many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxyEach with the potential for hosting life.By R. England, 06.22.2020
Scientists find a likely Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like starIt's closer By J. Fingas, 06.07.2020
Scientists find an Earth-like planet hiding in old Kepler dataIt's sitting in the habitable zone of a star studied years ago.By J. Fingas, 04.15.2020
Kepler beams back final image from its almost decade-long journeyCheck out the space telescope's last-ever snapshot before it ran out of fuel.By S. Shah, 02.08.2019
Researchers propose guiding large space telescopes with tiny satellitesIn the future, they could be used to stabilize telescopes studying exoplanets.By M. Locklear, 01.04.2019
NASA bids Kepler 'goodnight' with last set of commandsThe space telescope has entered eternal sleep.By M. Moon, 11.17.2018
After Math: The best kind of falling starNumbers because how else will you count the sites you've been deplatformed from?By A. Tarantola, 11.04.2018
The Kepler space telescope's end has finally comeIt confirmed thousands of exoplanets in its over nine-year mission.By M. Locklear, 10.30.2018
Researchers may have found the first signs of an exomoonThe Neptune-sized object is orbiting the star Kepler-1625.By M. Locklear, 10.03.2018
NASA put Kepler back to sleep in hopes it will send data againThe spacecraft is struggling to point its telescope.By M. Locklear, 10.01.2018
After Math: Ch-Ch-Ch-ChangesBecause without numbers, you can't count the revolutions.By A. Tarantola, 09.09.2018
Planet-hunting Kepler telescope declares that it is not, in fact, deadThe spacecraft may be critically low on fuel, but it's still fighting.By S. Krishna, 09.07.2018
NASA’s TESS spacecraft begins its search for exoplanetsIt’s expected to spot over 1,600 exoplanets during its mission.By M. Locklear, 07.30.2018
NASA put Kepler to sleep to preserve its remaining fuelEvidence suggests the spacecraft is running very low on fuel.By M. Locklear, 07.06.2018
NASA's TESS spacecraft may find 1,600 new planets in the next two yearsThe spacecraft will launch on a SpaceX rocket Wednesday at 6:51 PM ET.By S. Krishna, 04.13.2018
NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler is near the end of its lifeIt's almost out of fuel.By S. Krishna, 03.15.2018
Google researchers use AI to spot distant exoplanetsAI could significantly cut down data analysis time.By M. Locklear, 12.14.2017
It rains sunscreen on this 'hot Jupiter' exoplanetScientists now believe that it snows sunscreen in most hot Jupiter-sized exoplanets.By M. Moon, 11.01.2017
ESA’s search for Earth’s ‘twin’ starts in 2026The PLATO mission will use 26 telescopes to search for habitable planets.By M. Locklear, 06.20.2017
NASA found ten Earth-size planets with conditions ideal for waterThey sit within a "habitable zone" around their particular stars that is conducive to liquid water. By D. Lumb, 06.19.2017