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

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

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

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

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 ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

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

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

The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...