In a solar system far, far away NASA have discovered a planet which they think 'might be remarkably similar to Earth', though ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

Astronomers have pulled a frozen, Earth-sized world out of archival data from the retired Kepler Space Telescope, revealing a ...

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like ...

The Earth-size planet HD 137010 b has a ‘50% chance of residing in the habitable zone’ of its sun-like star, scientists say ...

AMES, Iowa – An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets near other stars. This discovery, ...

Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-sized planet located 146 light-years from our solar system. The planet, named HD ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...