This award follows Kepler’s announcement of the January 2026 launch of its next-generation optical constellation, marking a major milestone in the company’s mission to deliver resilient, high-capacity ...

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 ...

Kepler-452b may be Earth's close cousin, but living on the newfound world would still be an alien experience. A group of pioneers magically transported to the surface of Kepler-452b-- which is the ...

Analysis of data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has revealed a near Earth-size world orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star, scientists announced Thursday, the closest ...

Astronomers digging through data from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope say they have discovered the closest Earth-like “twin” circling another star ever found. The planet, called ...

NASA’s Kepler Telescope has just returned the final batch of data from its primary mission and it includes 10 new Earth-sized worlds in the habitable zone of their star. The rest of this article is ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. (CNN) — The NASA Kepler mission has discovered 219 more exoplanets, including 10 Earth-size planets, program scientist Mario Perez said Monday at NASA’s Ames Research Center in ...

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 blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday on a three-year mission to find Earth’s twin, a Goldilocks planet where it’s neither too hot nor too cold, but just ...

It’s you and me, Kepler−442b. What does it take for an alien exoplanet to host life as we know it? A lot, as it turns out. Suggesting that Earth-like conditions on potentially habitable planets may be ...