One of the most Earth-like planets located by the Kepler mission is uninhabitable after all, due to its very active star. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...
An artistic illustration compares Earth (L) to a planet beyond the solar system that is a close match to Earth, called Kepler-452b in this NASA image released on July 23, 2015. (Reuters Photo) London: ...
New research just found that the recently discovered “most Earth-like alien planet,” Kepler-438b, could have been rendered uninhabitable by vast quantities of radiation. The planet’s atmosphere is ...
About 470 light years away, a rocky planet about 1.12 times the size of Earth spins around a star in what’s called a habitable zone — where favorable temperatures mean liquid water could possibly ...
One of the planets earmarked as potentially most Earth-like is dissuading guests, with the discovery of vast superflares rendering it inhospitable. Researchers had believed Kepler-438b to be the most ...