The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

Illustration of the Kepler-51 system and its inner three planets, which have unusually low density. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suggest that at least one more planet is ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the purpose of finding new objects ...

This is an artist's rendition of the Kepler-35 planet system, in which a Saturn-size planet orbits a pair of stars. The larger star is similar to the size of the Sun, while the smaller star is 79 ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

All good things must come to an end, on Earth and even in space ... telescope's new normal, calling the updated mission K2. And even though the mission is at an end, that doesn't mean Kepler's ...

In some cases, an additional lens is added to turn the image right side up ... Fortunately, it's not our only orbital telescope. The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes Kepler ...

A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies.

The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ...

NASA isn’t quite sure when they’ll say their last goodbye to the space telescope ... us to virtually image distant solar systems. As you might expect, for this to work Kepler must be able ...

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope ...