Kepler Spacecraft

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  Sub-Neptune Sized Planet Validated Using Habitable-Zone Planet Finder

  The Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical instrument has confirmed an object initially observed by the Kepler spacecraft is an exoplanet.

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  NASA's Kepler Planet-Hunting Telescope Put to Rest With Final Commands

  Kepler's "goodnight" falls on the same date as the 388-year anniversary of the death of its namesake, German astronomer Johannes Kepler.

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  NASA Says Planet Hunting Telescope Kepler Has Woken Up Again

  In July, NASA placed the spacecraft, with 2,650 confirmed planets, in a hibernation-like state in preparation to download the science data collected in its latest observation campaign.

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  NASA's Kepler Hit by Cosmic Ray Event While Observing TRAPPIST-1

  "The benign event is the fourth occurrence of cosmic ray susceptibility since launch in March 2009. The spacecraft remains healthy and is operating nominally."

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  NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers New 'Hot Jupiter'

  NASA's Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft has discovered a new Jupiter-like exoplanet, orbiting a 2.6 billion-year-old star located about 545 light years from the Earth.

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  Nasa's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers New 'Hot Jupiter'

  The astronomers also used three different ground-based spectrographs to conduct high-resolution spectroscopic observations of K2-29b.

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  NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Probe Out Of Danger

  In a good news for astronomers, NASA engineers have successfully recovered the planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft from emergency mode (EM).

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  Nasa's Planet-Hunting Kepler Probe Goes Into Emergency Mode

  The last regular contact with Kepler probe was on April 4, as Nasa engineers tried to manoeuvre the spacecraft to the centre of the Milky Way for a new task.

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  NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Probe Goes Into Emergency Mode

  In a bad news for astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life in deep space, NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler has gone into an emergency mode 75 million miles from the Earth.

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  Kepler Spacecraft Finds New Super-Earth 180 Light-Years Away

  A year and a half after an equipment failure threatened to derail its epochal search for worlds beyond our solar system, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has bagged another planet, astronomers announced on Thursday.

• Exoplanet Hunter Kepler Set for New Mission

  There is some good news for space research enthusiasts. NASA's Kepler spacecraft is back in action, a year after suffering an equipment failure.