Kepler-452b, a super-Earth orbiting a sun-like star just 1,400 light-years away, has emerged as a prime candidate for ...
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 ...
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 ...
Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...
In 2015, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope confirmed a planet almost identical to Earth — Kepler-452b, orbiting a Sun-like star 1 ...
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 ...
It's easy to imagine clone armies, lightsabers, and starships on some of these very real planets.