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

Kepler-452b, a super-Earth orbiting a sun-like star just 1,400 light-years away, has emerged as a prime candidate for harboring alien life. Despite high hopes and predictions that we could discover ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s say that there is a global catastrophe, and we have to vacate Earth. How long would it take us to get to the most Earth-like planet that we’ve ever discovered? To begin, the most Earth-like ...

On the heels of Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner’s announcement of a $100-million search for extraterrestrial life, NASA has just found the planet that, so far, most closely resembles Earth—and it has ...

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 ...