NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope confirmed more than 2,600 exoplanets, including several located in the so-called habitable zone, where liquid water could exist. Worlds like Kepler-186f, Kepler-452b, and ...

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 ...

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...

Astronomers have identified the most Earth like exoplanet yet, orbiting a sunlike star in the habitable zone 1,400 light years away. It is a snapshot of how far the search for life has come, and how ...

NASA announced on Thursday that scientists have discovered a planet similar in size to Earth that orbits in a zone conducive to supporting life. It’s not clear whether the planet discovered is rocky ...

The Kepler spacecraft — initially launched to find other habitable planets across the universe — has kicked into an emergency mode more than 75 million miles away in deep space, prompting efforts on ...

NASA's Kepler has successfully detected planets once again, despite the failure of two of its reaction wheels. Our premiere planet-finder is back in action. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Astronomers have determined that the planet Kepler-10c, discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope back in 2011 and thought to be a gas giant, is actually solid, making it an unprecedented ...