Telescope dies after finding thousands of worlds

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s elite planet-hunting spacecraft, the Kepler Space Telescope, has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary.

Already well past its expected lifetime, the 9oe-year-old Kepler had been running low on fuel for months.

Kepler discovered 2,681 planets outside our solar system and even more potential candidates. It showed us rocky worlds the size of Earth that, like Earth, might harbor life. It also unveiled incredible super Earths: planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.

2nd migrant group enters Mexico

NILTEPEC, Mexico — More than 1,000 people in a second migrant caravan that forged its way across the river from Guatemala began walking through southern Mexico on Tuesday and reached the city of Tapachula — some 250 miles behind a larger group and more than 1,000 miles from the closest U.S. border. The first, larger caravan of about 4,000 mainly Honduran migrants passed through Tapachula about 10 days ago.

Indonesia: Jet may be found

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A top Indonesian military official said the Lion Air jet that crashed Monday may have been found in the Java Sea. Armed forces chief Hadi Tjahjanto said a search and rescue effort identified the possible seabed location of the jet. Debris and some human remains were found previously but not the main fuselage and the black boxes. The 2-month-old Boeing jet crashed Monday just minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.