CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have identified a “close cousin” to Earth that’s orbiting a sun-like star and might harbor life. “It is the closest thing that we have to another place that ...

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 ...

Kepler-452b orbits a sun-like star in the habitable zone with a 385-day year, making it the most Earth-like exoplanet ever ...

Scientists analyzing four years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission have released a new catalog of exoplanet candidates. The catalog adds more than 500 new possible planets to the 4,175 already found ...

University of Texas at Austin astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler mission have helped to discover the first near-Earth-size planet around a Sun-like star in the “habitable zone,” the range of ...

Thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope, NASA has announced the discovery of the first near-Earth size planet in the so-called habitable zone around another star 1,400 light-years from Earth, in the ...

It's been about twenty years since the discovery of the first definitive proof that there are planets outside our solar system, and today NASA has revealed that it has found the first near-Earth-sized ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Scientists have identified the best bet yet for an Earth-like planet that might harbor life. The researchers announced their discovery Thursday based on observations from NASA's ...

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 ...