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

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

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

Astronomers have pulled a frozen, Earth-sized world out of archival data from the retired Kepler Space Telescope, revealing a ...

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 ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets near other stars. This discovery, ...

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 ...

— -- 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 examined the sky for exoplanets ...

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