![Kepler mission declares spacecraft emergency]()
Spacecraft controllers are working to restore control of NASA’s Kepler astronomy spacecraft after it entered an “emergency mode,” disrupting science observations, the mission’s manager said April 8.
![Kepler’s Shaw Prize Winner Once in NASA’s Dog House]()
NASA's William Borucki just won the $1 million Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his work discovering extrasolar planets.
Not bad considering that Borucki and his planet-hunting Kepler telescope were in NASA's dog house two years before launch.
![NASA’s Kepler Craft Begins New Search for Alien Worlds]()
NASA’s hobbled Kepler spacecraft is once again seeking out strange new worlds under a new 80-day mission to hunt for alien planets.
![Kepler Finds First Earth-sized Planet in Habitable Zone]()
Scientists have discovered an Earth-sized alien planet in the habitable zone of its host star.
![Kepler Scientist Pushes Extended Mission for Crippled Space Telescope ahead of NASA Senior Review]()
The proposed mission would use the hobbled space telescope to continue scanning for Earth-like planets orbiting the habitable zone of faraway stars.
![International Exoplanet Telescope Could Follow Kepler, Astronomer Tells Lawmakers]()
An astronomy professor quizzed by the House Science Committee about how NASA should probe the universe for signs of life said the agency could collaborate on an international telescope to perform detailed observations of faraway, Earth-like planets discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope.
![Hobbled Kepler May Resume Alien World Search]()
Kepler team members are drawing up new plans for the space telescope, whose original exoplanet hunt was derailed in May when the second of its four orientation-maintaining reaction wheels failed.
![Hobbled Kepler Needs New Mission Before 2014 Review]()
NASA is looking for a new mission that could keep the observatory, and the team at the Ames Research Center that operates it, busy.
![NASA Solicits New Mission Ideas for Ailing Kepler Spacecraft]()
The space agency issued a call for new mission proposals to help prepare for the likelihood that Kepler will never fully regain its health.
![Kepler Should Achieve Goal Despite Glitch, Researchers Say]()
Kepler should be able to achieve its primary goal regardless of whether or not it can bounce back from a recent malfunction.
![NASA To Attempt To Revive Stricken Kepler Telescope in July]()
NASA engineers are preparing a plan to return the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope to service following a reaction wheel failure that shut down the four-year-old observatory in May.
![Kepler’s Legacy Secure; Extended Mission in Doubt]()
Kepler has spotted more than 2,700 potential exoplanets to date, with many more waiting to be plucked from the mission’s huge data set.
![Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Suffers Major Failure]()
The planet-hunting days of NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,700 potential alien worlds to date, may be over.
One of the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope’s reaction wheels — devices that maintain the observatory’s position in space — remains balky despite mitigation attempts.
