The Boulder-built Kepler spacecraft, which has dazzled scientists and sparked the public’s imagination in its four-year hunt for new planets, has malfunctioned and could be facing the end of its ...

Our galaxy teems with worlds, and very likely millions of these planets are similar in size to Earth. In other words, we probably aren't alone. That's one finding by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, launched ...

Delays fabricating precision optics for the Kepler space telescope, problems developing the planet-hunting satellite’s avionics system and budget constraints beyond the control of program managers all ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. So far in the search for life elsewhere in the universe, astronomers have found scores of large planets.

(Phys.org) —NASA's Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this phenomenon—a result of ...