That spacecraft, the Kepler Space Telescope ... One question was whether to sharpen the telescope’s focus after the first images seemed slightly blurry. It was designed to be adjusted, but ...

The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4214 resides about 10 million light-years away. The galaxy’s relative proximity, combined with the wide variety of evolutionary stages among its stars. This image from ...

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Combined with the precise knowledge of the space segment topology, Kepler can thus largely eliminate the main factors influencing signal-in-space errors. This leads to an unprecedented precision and a ...

The mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft is in peril. The space agency says a malfunction has disabled a reaction wheel that keeps Kepler's telescope pointed precisely at far-away planets ...

Discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, Kepler-442b is a super-Earth, meaning it’s larger than Earth ...

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 ...

It's the closest so far. It's Earth 2.0." "Today the Earth is a little less lonely because there's a new kid on the block," said Jon Jenkins, Kepler data analysis lead at Nasa's Ames Research ...