Kepler Telescope’s 9 1/2-Year Mission Ends
Credit: Kepler: NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL/HOUSTON—NASA’s pioneering Kepler space telescope, which detected thousands of planets beyond the Solar System and raised the prospect that worlds beyond Earth may support life, is out of fuel, bringing its 9 1/2-year mission to an end. Launched in 2009, Kepler revealed that...
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