Misaligned planets in distant planetary system discovered

Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2013, 14:02

Using NASA`s Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers have found a distant planetary system, which features multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star.

NASA calls off attempts to fix Kepler space telescope

Last Updated: Saturday, August 17, 2013, 09:22

The Kepler space telescope`s planet-hunting days are over because its broken positioning system cannot be fixed, NASA officials said on Thursday.

NASA`s Kepler space telescope could soon be shut down permanently

Last Updated: Friday, May 17, 2013, 14:23

The Kepler space telescope - NASA`s primary instrument for detecting planets beyond our solar system-had suffered a critical failure and could soon be shut down permanently.