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Kepler's mission to find strange new worlds may be at an end after serious technical failures afflict NASA's famous space telescope. [Read more]

Back in March of 2009, the Kepler space telescope launched into the universe with the goal of identifying Earth-like planets. Over the years, it did manage that mission, occasionally finding a planet located in the habitable zone orbiting its star. Now, NASA is reporting that the space telescope is...

Planet-spotter not spinning its wheels in space In a press conference on Wednesday, NASA warned that its Kepler orbital telescope, which has had much success in spotting Earth-sized planets, may be on its last legs after a serious equipment failure.…

Very few experiments have changed the way we perceive our Universe, but the Kepler exoplanet survey telescope is one such example. Simply by monitoring a single patch of the sky continuously, it provided a new understanding of how many planets exist in the galaxy. Since its launch in 2009, Kepler...

The question "Is anybody out there?" grows more tantalizing with the discovery of each new far-off planet. CBS Sunday Morning talks to scientists searching for clues. [Read more]

Three “habitable zone” discoveries keeping the boffins happy Data from the Kepler space telescope has yielded yet more Earth-like planets, with a University of Washington researcher identifying a second “habitable zone” super-Earth orbiting the star dubbed Kepler-62.…

NASA ‘s Kepler space telescope has made a new round of discoveries: two planetary systems, both of which are home to a total of three planets within the habitable zone. As such, it is possible that each planet could have a surface temperature capable of liquid water and supporting life. The...

NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered three "super-Earth-size" exoplanets that are close enough to their stars to make them possibly suitable for water. Two of the planets (Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f) orbit a K2 dwarf estimated to be around 7 billion years old. Measuring at two-thirds the size of...

Harvard Liquid water is one of the essential ingredients of life on Earth and it has properties conducive to life in general, so researchers have defined the concept of a habitable zone with water as its focus. For astronomers, the habitable zone is the area far enough from a host star that a...

Battlefield 3 versus iPad 4 The difference in the quality of graphics capable on today's tablet devices is far removed from the potential of tomorrow's says?Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. Speaking at the company's investor day, he showed the different in the graphical ability of what he called the...