Kepler-452b, a super-Earth orbiting a sun-like star just 1,400 light-years away, has emerged as a prime candidate for ...

Kepler 452b appears to have many similarities to Earth, but is 1,400 light years away. Astronomers hunting for another Earth have found the closest match yet—a potentially rocky planet circling its ...

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 ...

In 2015, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope confirmed a planet almost identical to Earth — Kepler-452b, orbiting a Sun-like star 1 ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Scientists have identified a “close cousin” to Earth that’s orbiting a sun-like star and might harbor life. “It is the closest thing that we have to another place that somebody ...

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 ...

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has spotted an Earth-like planet orbiting around a Sun-like star found in a habitable zone most similar to our own. The exoplanet, Kepler-452b, was found 1,400 light-years ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's easy to imagine clone armies, lightsabers, and starships on some of these very real planets.

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 ...