Launched in 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope’s mission was to search the galaxy for exoplanets. It found thousands of new planets, some Earth-like, during its time in space, but as fuel is low for the ...
Having spent the better part of a decade looking out from our solar system to survey the Milky Way’s population of exoplanets, NASA’s Kepler space telescope is easing into retirement by turning around ...