After nearly a decade of groundbreaking exploration, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope concluded its mission, leaving a lasting legacy in the search for exoplanets. The spacecraft, which confirmed the ...

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 ...

The Kepler Space Telescope, launched March 6, 2009, was designed to search the Milky Way for exoplanets. Using the transit ...

The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...

NASA found what looked like a planet, but its behavior was bizarre. Turns out, Einstein saw it coming, 88 years ago.

An exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

Discover James Webb discoveries revealing the JWST early universe, cosmic dawn insights, and groundbreaking new space ...

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a ...

In just a handful of years, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already changed the way we see and understand our universe. Join NASA Solar System Ambassador Krissie Cook to explore how the JWST ...

Aparna Zalani is an award-winning CBS News journalist with over 25 years in journalism. She has reported on major stories at MSNBC and CBS Texas. She began her career in India and now lives near ...