NASA’s prolific Kepler space telescope, which shut its powerful eye nearly five years ago, continued finding exoplanets N even while taking its final breaths. A team of astrophysicists and citizen astronomers combing through the last chunk of data that Kepler sent home say they found two new worlds and a candidate planet closely orbiting three faint stars about 400 light years from Earth. So far these are the only exoplanets that have been discovered in the telescope’s final dataset, making them the very last worlds that Kepler glimpsed just before it ran out of fuel
