When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...
NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...
A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.
The first—and so far only—hint of the potential planet arrived in observations from NASA’s now retired Kepler space telescope ...
Astronomers have pulled a frozen, Earth-sized world out of archival data from the retired Kepler Space Telescope, revealing a ...
Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...
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 ...
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...