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 ...

It’s been nine months since my last report, so what has the mission been up to? Well, the search of the Kepler data has continued and is now in the home stretch. Last July we announced Kepler-452b, an ...

It's been about twenty years since the discovery of the first definitive proof that there are planets outside our solar system, and today NASA has revealed that it has found the first near-Earth-sized ...

A distant planet has been dubbed Earth 2.0 after Nasa scientists said it was “the closest thing that we have” to a planet that could sustain life as Earth does. Whether you see the discovery as one of ...

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 ...

Thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope, NASA has announced the discovery of the first near-Earth size planet in the so-called habitable zone around another star 1,400 light-years from Earth, in the ...