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

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...

NASA’s Kepler telescope has identified Kepler 452b, the most Earth like planet ever discovered, orbiting in the habitable zone of a sunlike star. This video explains why the find is so important, how ...

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 ...

This artist's impression shows the star TRAPPIST-1 with two planets transiting across it. ExoMiner++, a recently updated open ...