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

SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might ...

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

Learn about HD 137010 b, a cold Earth‑sized planet candidate that sits near the outer edge of its star’s habitable zone.

The candidate is coined HD 137010 b. It would orbit a K-type dwarf star approximately 146 light-years from Earth. The evidence comes from a single transit pattern seen in K2 data from 2017: the star ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky ...

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

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

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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 ...