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What happened to NASA’s Kepler space telescope?

After nearly a decade of groundbreaking exploration, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope concluded its mission, leaving a lasting ...
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Nov. 14, 2012: NASA announces an extended mission for Kepler

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

After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel ...
WIVB-TV

Kepler telescope dead after finding thousands of worlds

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 ...
Nextgov

Kepler space telescope overcomes latest challenge

Artists's rendering of the Kepler space telescope in orbit. (NASA image) Three wheels won't get your car very far, but three is apparently good enough for NASA's $550 million planet-finding Kepler ...
ExtremeTech

So Long, and Thanks for All the Planets: NASA Retires the Kepler Telescope

After nearly ten years and 2,681 planets, it's time to say good-bye to the Kepler space telescope. NASA has announced that the mission has ended. Unlike more open-ended missions like Curiosity or ...
ExtremeTech

NASA saved the Kepler space telescope from a critical error last month

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Kepler Space Telescope’s Second Chance to Shine

The engineers huddled around a telemetry screen, and the mood was tense. They were watching streams of data from a crippled spacecraft more than 50 million miles away so far that even at the speed of ...
Capital Public Radio

Kepler Spacecraft Is Stable And Out Of Emergency Status, NASA Says

Days after they declared a spacecraft emergency over the Kepler space telescope, NASA engineers say the craft has now recovered and that they're working to figure out what happened. Kepler, which is ...
The Atlantic

Scientists Discover a New 'Mega-Earth'

Astronomers have determined that the planet Kepler-10c, discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope back in 2011 and thought to be a gas giant, is actually solid, making it an unprecedented ...
BGR

What Happened To NASA's Kepler Space Telescope?

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 ...