NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...
Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky ...
When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.
:rocket: Could aliens be hiding on a frozen twin of Earth? NASA has just discovered a rocky exoplanet that’s remarkably ...
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...
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.
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet which is estimated to be 6 percent larger than Earth. Named HD 137010 b, the planet is located about 146 light-away from Earth ...
Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.
Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...
All seven roughly match the size and mass of our own planet and are almost certainly rocky. Researchers announced Wednesday the stunning discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in ...
Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...