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  Tentative Evidence of Life Found On Faraway Planet, Says NASA

  The space agency announced that its examination of the planet's atmospheric composition indicated the potential existence of an oceanic world.

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  Jupiter-Like Exoplanet Discovered by Kepler Telescope 17,000 Light-Years Away

  The exoplanet was found circling a star 17,000 light-years away from the Earth

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  Scientists Find 'Supermoon' Outside Our Solar System Orbiting Jupiter-Sized Exoplanet

  Scientists have discovered a new 'supermoon' orbiting a Jupiter-sized exoplanet.

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  NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Finds 17 New Exoplanets, Including an Earth-Sized World

  Researchers have discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kepler mission.

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  Kepler, 1st Exoplanet Spotted By NASA, Confirmed As Real World

  Ten years after it was launched, the first exoplanet candidate spotted by NASA's Kepler space telescope has finally been confirmed as a real world, scientists say.

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  100 New Exoplanets Discovered Just 3 Months With NASA's Kepler Telescope

  An international team of astronomers have discovered more than 100 extrasolar planets (exoplanets) -- that revolve around stars other than the Sun -- in only three months, using a combination of ground- and space-based telescopes.

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  NASA's Kepler Planet-Hunting Telescope Put to Rest With Final Commands

  Kepler's "goodnight" falls on the same date as the 388-year anniversary of the death of its namesake, German astronomer Johannes Kepler.

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  NASA Bids Goodbye To Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope

  NASA has decided to retire its Kepler space telescope that discovered more than 2,600 planets and ran out of fuel needed for further science operations.

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  NASA Retires Its Planet Hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope

  Currently orbiting the sun 156 million kilometres km from Earth, the Kepler telescope will drift further from our planet when mission engineers turn off its radio transmitters.

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  NASA's Planet Hunter Telescope Kepler Retires After Running Out Of Fuel

  The US space agency's Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and is being retired after nine and a half years, having helped discover more than 2,600 planets, some of which may hold life, officials said Tuesday.

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  New Exoplanet Twice The Size Of Earth Found 245 Light Years Away

  Using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has discovered a new exoplanet twice the size of Earth and about 145 light years away

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  Google AI That Helped NASA Find Exoplanets Now Available to All

  A Google model based on artificial intelligence and machine learning that helped NASA discover two exoplanets is now available to researchers.

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  How Hidden Stars May Impact Search For Earth-Like Planets

  Researchers have found that hidden stars may make planets appear smaller than they actually are, complicating the search for Earth-like planets.

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  NASA's Kepler Telescope Discovers 10 New Earth-Sized Exoplanets

  The Kepler mission team released a survey of 219 potential exoplanets that had been detected by the space observatory launched in 2009 to scan the Milky Way galaxy.

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  'We Are Probably Not Alone': NASA Finds 10 'Earth-Like' Worlds

  Astronomers using the Kepler space telescope have detected 219 possible new exoplanets in our galaxy, including 10 relatively small, rocky and possibly habitable planets similar to our own, NASA announced Monday.