Mission · NASA
Kepler
Launch6 Mar 2009
RetiredOct 2018
Stars surveyed>500,000
Planets found>2,600
Kepler showed our galaxy holds billions of hidden exoplanets.
It was NASA's first mission to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of their stars.
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