Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. ... March 23, 2017 - Kepler's K2 mission is now in its thirteenth observing campaign, monitoring a patch of sky in the direction of the constellation Taurus. read more
Four planets have been confirmed through Kepler 's K2 mission. In November 2013, astronomers estimated, based on Kepler space mission data, that there could be as many as 40 billion rocky, Earth-size exoplanets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs within the Milky Way. read more
The Kepler Mission is in the development phase with launch planned for 2008. The mission goal is to reliably detect a significant number of Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. read more