Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

— -- 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 ...

In Apple TV’s Pluribus, a faint radio signal from deep space reshapes humanity, and the source, astronomers learn, is Kepler-22b, a world that exists far beyond our solar system. During episode 8, ...

For all our technological progress, humanity remains confined to a single planet. But that may not always be the case. Over ...

This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission. The habitable zone is the sweet spot around a ...

For life as we know it to arise on another planet, scientists think the alien world must have three key ingredients: organic molecules that can form complex structures, energy to jiggle those ...

(CNN, By Elizabeth Landau) — Kepler-22b is the first confirmed planet in the “habitable zone,” the area around a star where a planet could exist with liquid water on its surface, that has been ...

The same team that recently discovered the possibly water-covered, life-supporting planet, Kepler 22b, two weeks ago announced the discovery of two more Earth-sized planets on Monday. Ars Technica's ...