07:15, Fri, Jul 24, 2015 Updated: 07:46, Fri, Jul 24, 2015 So what do we know about it so far? 1. Kepler-452b is the first exo-planet found which is orbiting a similar star to our sun, known as a ...

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 spotted something pretty nifty: "Earth's bigger, older cousin." The Earth-size planet, Kepler-452b, was found circling a sun-like star in an orbit that takes 385 days. The ...

The Kepler probe's focus is on finding another habitable planet. — -- NASA says we're on our way to discovering Earth 2.0. The Kepler Space Telescope has located a planet and star closely ...

Inching ahead on their quest for what they call Earth 2.0, astronomers from NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft announced Thursday that they have found what might be one of the closest analogues ...

Kepler 452b (right) is about 60 per cent larger in diameter than Earth (Artist’s impression: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle) Meet Kepler 452b, Earth’s new alien cousin. This rocky planet is the first alien ...

On the heels of Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner’s announcement of a $100-million search for extraterrestrial life, NASA has just found the planet that, so far, most closely resembles Earth—and it has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past several years, the Kepler Space Telescope has been staring at a section of the sky, waiting for the stars to get a little bit dimmer. A sudden drop of brightness could mean that a planet ...