Launched by NASA in 2009, the Kepler space telescope was outfitted with equipment to discover and study Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way galaxy. It was named after the 17th century scientist and ...

Pluribus Episode 8 reveals the hive mind’s master plan, and it may have started long before the signal from Kepler-22b.

NASA’s elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope’s demise Tuesday. Already well past its ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...

After three years of searching, scientists have caught the elusive phenomenon. — -- The "brilliant flash" that occurs when a star dies and explodes has been captured for the first time in visible ...

At this time last year, the scientists working on Kepler, NASA’s fantastically successful planet-hunting space telescope, were ecstatic. The probe, launched in 2009, had originally been given just ...

Space-watchers saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, but now it’s official: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, by far the most successful planet-hunting telescope in history, isn’t coming back. Engineers ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An eighth planet has been found in a faraway solar system, matching our own in numbers. Even more amazing, machines and not humans made the discovery. NASA joined with Google ...

NASA scientists say the Kepler space telescope may have discovered the most “Earth-like” planet yet. Circling a star about 500 light-years away, planet Kepler 186-F may be the right temperature to ...

The Kepler probe's focus is on finding another habitable planet. — -- NASA says we're on our way to discovering Earth 2.0. The Kepler Space Telescope has located a planet and star closely ...