The Kepler Space Telescope is on a mission to find Earth-like planets, and its past findings have stirred up alien speculation. 24/7 Live Houston Southwest Southeast Northwest Northeast.

Back in March 2009, when Kepler was launched, scientists didn’t know how common alien planets were outside our solar system. But soon, the telescope revealed that almost all stars host a ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

Watch this: Kepler telescope finds 10 new Earth-like planets 01:24 NASA announced the latest findings Monday in its hunt for friendly exoplanets, and the haul includes 219 new candidates.

Kepler Space Telescope Discovers 10 New Potentially Habitable Planets. By Bianca Datta Monday, ... The latest findings inch us closer to finding worlds beyond our own that can sustain life.

To the list of planets orbiting distant stars, add another 715. That’s the number of planets, strewn among 305 planetary systems, popping out of the observational data from NASA’s Kepler space ...

NASA's Charlie Sobeck, former manager of the Kepler Space Telescope mission, discusses the monumental findings of the spacecraft and NASA's decision to retire it in orbit.

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this phenomenon — a result of ...

Einstein was right about relativity, again. NASA’s Kepler space telescope has beamed back the latest evidence that light can be bent by gravity, an element of the theory of general relativity ...