What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

NASA researchers have identified Kepler 452b, the most Earth-like planet discovered to date, orbiting a sun-like star in the habitable zone. This video explains why the find matters and how upcoming ...

The crew of The Ark (streaming now on Peacock) abandoned a dying Earth in pursuit of humanity’s new home on Proxima centauri b. That world does have one thing going for it, it’s nearby, orbiting the ...

Over the past several years, the Kepler Space Telescope has been staring at a section of the sky, waiting for the stars to get a little bit dimmer. A sudden drop of brightness could mean that a planet ...

Ever since astronomers started to detect planets beyond our solar system, they've been trying to find another world just like Earth. And few years ago, they announced that they'd found a planet that ...

Back in 2015, astronomers announced the groundbreaking discovery of a world not too unlike our own – Kepler-452b. But a new study has cast doubt on whether the planet really exists. The rest of this ...

Today, the Kepler space telescope team announced its latest list of discoveries, a total of 219 new candidate exoplanets, ten of which are rocky planets in the so-called habitable zone. Receive emails ...

Telescope was in jeopardy after being stuck in emergency mode. — -- NASA's Kepler space probe has resumed its hunt for exoplanets, following a scare earlier this month that put the entire science ...

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Planet hunting telescope began burning precious fuel last week. — -- The Kepler space telescope is now "stable," NASA said today, following an alarming discovery last week that found the ...

Astronomers have used NASA’s Kepler space telescope to capture for the first time the incredible flash from an exploding star’s shockwave. The shockwave, known as the “shock breakout”, was identified ...