When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
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 ...
Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...
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 ...
— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- An eighth planet has been found in a faraway solar system, matching our own in numbers. Even more amazing, machines and not humans made the discovery. NASA joined with Google ...
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...