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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 ...
Digital Journal

Kepler Mission finds ‘near-Earth-size’ planet in habitable zone

In a press release on Thursday, Kepler-452b was introduced, along with 11 other possible small habitable zone candidates, marking another milestone in Kepler’s mission to find another Earth-like ...
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 ...
WTVD

NASA announces discovery of 'Earth 2.0'

NASA's planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has just discovered Kepler-452b, a planet that scientists are calling "Earth 2.0." Scientists said in a press conference Thursday that they ...