Kepler Space Telescope

An artist's impression of the Kepler space telescope scouring the sky Credit: NASA

A history of the Kepler space telescope

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Citizen scientists find rare exoplanet in Kepler data

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Interview: exoplanet-hunting with Kepler

Artist's impression of the Kepler space telescope Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Wendy Stenzel

How the Kepler space telescope came to be

An artist's impression of the Kepler space telescope, an observatory that taught us for every star we see in the night sky, there is on average one planet orbiting it. Image Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel/D. Rutter

NASA retires Kepler space telescope

More observations will be needed to confirm whether the signals really do come from an exomoon. Image Credit: Dan Durda

First moon beyond Solar System discovered

Exomoons may be better candidates for life than exoplanets. This artist’s illustration shows a moon in orbit around a gas giant exoplanet.NASA GSFC: Jay Friedlander and Britt Griswold

121 exoplanets may host ‘habitable’ moons

Artist’s impression of the Kepler-90 system. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel

Artificial intelligence discovers eighth planet around star

An artist’s impression of three exoplanets orbiting their host star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

10 new Earth-sized planet candidates discovered

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Kepler discovers ‘Earth 2.0’

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Kepler Finds First Earth Sized Exoplanets