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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 legacy in the search for exoplanets. The spacecraft, which confirmed the ...
Time

The Kepler Space Telescope May Be Dead, But Its Planet-Hunting Mission Continues

Space-watchers saw the handwriting on the wall months ago, but now it’s official: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, by far the most successful planet-hunting telescope in history, isn’t coming back. Engineers ...
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Kepler 452b and several exoplanets are similar to Earth, but there's not an exact twin

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...
WRAL

Kepler's first exoplanet has been confirmed, 10 years after discovery

CNN — Ten years after the Kepler Space Telescope launched and revolutionized exoplanet discovery, Kepler-1658 b has finally been confirmed as the first exoplanet that the mission ever detected. It's ...
Mashable

Here's what we know about the real alien planet inspiring 'Pluribus'

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...