The Kepler space telescope, the celebrated discoverer of worlds around distant stars, may have found its last planet.
NASA scientists announced on Wednesday that the telescope, which to date has cost $600 million to build and operate, has lost the ability to point accurately.
It is not dead, but by going wobbly it can't do the precision observations necessary for spotting signs of exoplanets.
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