Although a broken reaction wheel on NASA's Kepler spacecraft is bad news for its primary exoplanet-hunting mission, the glitch could be a boon for the study of stellar physics NASA’s exoplanet-hunting ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope could be used to find exomoons, which are the moons of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. That is the claim of an international team of astronomers, which says ...

Scientists working on NASA’s Kepler mission have unveiled the first five exoplanets discovered by the space telescope since it was launched in March 2009. The exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other ...

NASA’s premier planet-hunting space telescope is out of gas. The Kepler space telescope can no longer search for planets orbiting other stars, ending its nearly 10-year mission, officials from the ...