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

The crew of The Ark (streaming now on Peacock) abandoned a dying Earth in pursuit of humanity’s new home on Proxima centauri b. That world does have one thing going for it, it’s nearby, orbiting the ...

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered a “cousin” of Earth 1,400 light-years away. The exoplanet Kepler 452b orbits a sunlike star at about the same distance as Earth orbits the sun, scientists ...

Back in 2015, astronomers announced the groundbreaking discovery of a world not too unlike our own – Kepler-452b. But a new study has cast doubt on whether the planet really exists. The rest of this ...

Data from the Kepler Space Telescope reveals a planet that hits the triumvirate of being just right: It's the right size in the right place, and is circling a star similar to our sun. Eric Mack has ...

Astronomers have discovered Kepler-452b, the most Earth-like exoplanet yet found, orbiting a star strikingly similar to our Sun. This video explains why it’s such a breakthrough, how the Kepler ...

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 ...

Scientists analyzing four years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission have released a new catalog of exoplanet candidates. The catalog adds more than 500 new possible planets to the 4,175 already found ...

Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the first ...