kepler space telescope

Astronomers cleverly repurposed old technology to find these planetary needles in a galactic haystack.

A familiar atmosphere with a few alien quirks.

Kepler and Dawn guzzled through their precious gas for similar reasons.

But the end is fast approaching.

The company's open source AI software is an armchair explorer's dream.

This is what happens when you turn machine learning loose on the cosmos.

And its clouds may be made of gemstones

But they won't put the hobbling two-wheeled spacecraft out to pasture yet.

Scott Hubbard, former director of the NASA Ames Research Center, speculates on how NASA could revive the ailing space telescope.

A critical failure in Kepler's alignment may spell the end for the storied planet hunter.