Looking for signs of life in the universe

The distant duo are the best candidates for habitable planets that astronomers have found so far, said William Borucki, the chief scientist for NASA's Kepler telescope. The discoveries, published online Thursday in the journal Science, mark a ...

"These two are our best candidates that might be habitable," said William Borucki, Kepler science principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center. The two planets are slightly larger than ours, and at least a couple of billion years older. The ...

Correction Previous versions of this story included an incorrect title for Darren Williams. He is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Penn State Behrend. You could say Justin Crepp's job is out of this world. The Penn State Behrend ...

NASA hasn't yet given up on the bringing Kepler space telescope back to life. However, even if the telescope can't be saved, it has already accomplished its targets of searching for an Earth-like planet. The planet is just not considered by the ...

NASA hasn't given up on resurrecting its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, but even if the observatory can't be saved, scientists expect it already has accomplished its goal of finding a habitable, Earth-like planet. They just don't know it ...

NASA officials announced Wednesday, May 15, that the Kepler space telescope ? the agency's primary instrument for detecting planets beyond our solar system ? had suffered a critical failure and could soon be shut down permanently. Scott Hubbard, a ...

Kepler's lead investigator says data already received from the mission could reveal more planets. This illustration shows 1,235 of the 2,740 planet candidates that the Kepler mission has found. Illustration courtesy Jason Rowe, Kepler/Caltech/NASA ...

LOS ANGELES: NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system. If engineers can't find a fix, the failure could mean an end to the $ 600 million ...

Nasa's premier telescope Kepler dedicated to seeking Earth like planets in and around habitable zones has faced a major technical glitch causing it to stop its operation temporarily. Scientists found the telescope in safe mode, on investigation that ...