Planet-hunting Telescope

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  Caught In The Act: A Black Hole Rips Apart An Unfortunate Star

  Scientists have captured a view of a colossal black hole violently ripping apart a doomed star, illustrating a extraordinary and chaotic cosmic event from beginning to end for the first time using NASA's planet-hunting telescope.

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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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  Just 5 Months After Launch, This Telescope Discovers 2 New Planets

  A planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system discovered two distant planets this week five months after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, officials said on Thursday.

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  SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Launches NASA's TESS Planet Hunting Telescope

  NASA's Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, lifted off on schedule from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:51pm EDT on Wednesday (4:21am IST on Thursday).

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  SpaceX Rocket Launched From Florida Carrying NASA Planet-Hunting Telescope

  A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Wednesday on SpaceX's first high-priority science mission for NASA, a planet-hunting space telescope whose launch was delayed for two days by a rocket-guidance glitch.

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  Rocket-Control Glitch Delays Launch Of NASA's Planet-Hunting Satellite

  An 11th-hour technical glitch prompted SpaceX to postpone its planned launch on Monday of a new NASA space telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system, delaying for at least 48 hours a quest to expand astronomers' known inventory of so-called exoplanets.

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  China Rushes to Finish World's Largest Telescope

  China is frantically giving finishing touches to the world's largest radio telescope designed to find signs of alien life following NASA's recent discovery of 'Earth 2.0' with the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope.

• NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Given New Mission

  NASA plans to revive its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope for a new mission after a positioning system problem sidelined the observatory last year, officials said on Friday.

• NASA calls off attempts to fix Kepler space telescope

  The Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting days are over because its broken positioning system cannot be fixed, NASA officials said on Thursday.

• NASA's planet-hunting telescope Kepler's days may be over

  NASA's first telescope dispatched to hunt for Earth-like planets that may support life elsewhere in the universe has lost use of its positioning system, threatening its mission, officials said on Wednesday.

• Earth-like planet found

  A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch. It's a bit too big. The planet's confirmation was announced Monday by NASA along with other discoveries by its Kepler telescope, which was launched on a planet-hunting mission in 2009.