Galileo's contemporary Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician ... This was the first working reflecting telescope. Other designers proved unable to grind mirrors with a regular curvature ...

NASA’s late, prolific planet-finding Kepler Telescope discovered at least three planets around Kepler-138 some 218 light years from Earth, making Kepler-138 b, c and d among the more nearby ...

Since its launch in March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has provided us with an incredible amount of data about exoplanets within our galaxy, proving these worlds are more varied and numerous ...

This meant that new data reduction techniques had to be developed to look for signals within the Kepler dataset. Dr McDonald said: “These signals are extremely difficult to find. Our observations ...

The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 by NASA's Kepler space telescope. The ...

The Kepler Space Telescope, named for astronomer Johannes ... The actual telescope is made up of 18 hexagonal mirrors made of gold-plated beryllium. Taken together, it has a diameter of 6.5 ...

The Kepler spacecraft is in the final moments of its life. NASA isn’t quite sure when they’ll say their last goodbye to the space telescope which has confirmed the existence of thousands of ...

The silhouette of the Au750 white gold pen recalls the Kepler telescope developed to observe the heavens, and the white gold of the cap top, cone and fittings contrast with the diamond-set deep ...