NASA has selected the Kepler Mission, a project based at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., as one of the next two new NASA Discovery missions. Scheduled for launch in 2006, the Kepler ...

SEATTLE – NASA has discovered the smallest planet ever seen beyond our solar system – a rocky world just 1.4 times larger than Earth – using its planet-hunting Kepler observatory. Subscribe to read ...

We present results from high-resolution, optical to near-IR imaging of host stars of Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs), identified in the original Kepler field. Part of the data were obtained under ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this phenomenon — a result of Einstein’s ...

Amendment 28 provides the revised text and new due dates for Appendix D.7: The Kepler Guest Observer Program. The Kepler Guest Observer (GO) Program solicits proposals for the acquisition and analysis ...