When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

NASA's planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has just discovered Kepler-452b, a planet that scientists are calling "Earth 2.0." Scientists said in a press conference Thursday that they ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...