They have discovered a way to allow NASA's Kepler spacecraft to continue its work looking for exoplanets!
Kepler was "disabled" on May 11th, 2013 when the second of four reaction wheels failed. The reaction wheels are needed to keep Kepler stabilized and pointed in the needed direction. The spacecraft needs three of the four working at any given time to continue its primary mission.
Since then, NASA has been trying to figure out what to do with the space telescope, since it still works otherwise.
Kepler has discovered 199 confirmed planets, 3568 unconfirmed "planet candidates", and 2165 eclipsing binary stars. It began operation in May of 2009.
Here is the amazing and awesome mission proposal:
