Farewell, Kepler: NASA Shuts Down Prolific Planet-Hunting Space Telescope
..NASA decommissioned the Kepler space telescope last night (Nov. 15), beaming "goodnight" commands to the sun-orbiting observatory. This official end comes as no surprise. NASA announced on Oct. 30 that Kepler's science work was done, because the..
Space.com. Nov 16, 2018 21:07 UTC