Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

HD 137010 b, a new Earth-like planet found 146 light-years away, may be habitable. Discovered by NASA Kepler data, further ...

The curious minds at What If reveal NASA signs of ancient life on Mars, exploring fossils, chemical evidence, and planetary ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...

It's remarkably similar to Earth.

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

The Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say ...

If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

Astronomers have identified a potentially habitable, Earth-size planet located about 146 light-years from our solar system, ...