Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun ...

Detecting this decline required many years of careful observation. The watch started with Kepler and then was picked up by the Palomar Observatory’s Hale Telescope in Southern California and finally ...

Over half were discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, a resilient observatory that far outlasted its original planned mission. Over nine and a half years, the spacecraft trailed the Earth ...

The distant world was already famous in astronomical circles as the first exoplanet candidate spotted by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which discovered thousands of planets beyond our solar ...

As with many space telescope missions, Kepler's dataset is open to the public. NASA maintains a database with the raw data collected during the space telescope's observations, and researchers are ...

The Kepler space telescope has helped us discover many potentially ... going on for supremacy’ between China and the U.S. may create benefits, says International Chamber of Commerce secretary ...

It's now earned the name "Kepler-51e." "We were really puzzled ... That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror. Capturing more light allows Webb to see more ...

The research team set out to study Kepler-51d, the third planet in the system, with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but almost missed their chance when the planet unexpectedly passed in ...

Fortunately, it's not our only orbital telescope. The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler, was NASA's first exoplanet hunting telescope. It launched on March 6 ...

Since Kepler lacked the telescope, he instead examined the sun using camera obscura. That method used a "small hole in a wall to project the sun's image onto a sheet of paper," the statement noted.

Still, telescope makers who implemented Kepler’s design were able to achieve 100 times magnification with telescopes as long as 150 feet. Such long tubes, however, did not fare well in wind and ...