Astronomers on Tuesday announced the discovery of eight new potentially habitable planets beyond our solar system, including two that are the most similar to Earth of any discovered so far. First ...

Kepler just can’t stop discovering exoplanets. Nearly two years after scientists said it was crippled, the planet-hunting telescope recently identified eight new planets. But that’s not all. They’re ...

SEATTLE — Astronomers announced today the discovery of eight new planets in their stars' habitable zones, the region where liquid water can exist on a planetary surface. Three of these planets are ...

On January 6, astronomers announced NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft had discovered eight new planets. Two of those, you can now visit in Elite: Dangerous. The two exoplanets planets, ...

If you’re planning on packing up and changing addresses to Kepler-442b or Kepler-438b anytime soon, you can probably put away the moving boxes for now. While the newly discovered exoplanets and their ...

Welcome to the family! Scientists using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have confirmed at least eight new roughly Earth-sized planets sitting in the habitable zones of their host stars – two of which rival ...

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has found a lot of planets outside our solar system, but now it may have tracked down a pair that are truly Earth-like. Scientists recently verified Kepler’s 1,000th ...

How many stars like our Sun host planets like Earth? NASA’s Kepler space telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date the mission has offered ...

The amazing Kepler Space Telescope has now catalogued over 1,000 exoplanets. Among them are eight new planets located within habitable zones, including two that astronomers say are the most Earth-like ...

If you’re planning on packing up and changing addresses to Kepler-442b or Kepler-438b anytime soon, you can probably put away the moving boxes for now. While the newly discovered exoplanets and their ...