NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-sized planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ...

Yesterday, we covered the new exoplanet profiles, which were discovered by the Kepler Space Observatory, but we wanted to delve a little bit deeper on the candidates in the Kepler-62 system, the two ...

“This is an artist impression of the newly discovered planets named Kepler-62e and 62-f. Both are super-Earths that are located in the habitable zone of a distant sun-like star. The largest planet in ...

The Kepler Space Telescope has been in orbit looking for planets around other stars since 2009, and it's started to find some startlingly interesting solar systems out there. Today, the Kepler team ...

Scientists have yet to find alien life forms or another world where water flows freely, but a recent discovery makes them thinking they are on the brink of locating many Earth-like planets. On ...

Scientists are reporting a bounty of new worlds that may be capable of sustaining life, with the discovery of three exoplanets slightly larger than Earth orbiting within their stars’ habitable zone.

PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the ...