Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...

Interestingly, Earth itself received a score of 0.829. However, the newly discovered planet, Kepler-442b, boasts a slightly ...

(CNN)-- As NASA prepares to hunt for Earth-like ... night," said Kepler project manager James Fanson during a during a NASA news conference. The focus of the mission is finding planets in a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA announced Tuesday it has discovered a planet that is a lot like Earth, and could possibly support life. Produced by Matthew Stuart Follow TI Video: On Facebook ...

high Earth orbit from which it can survey the entire sky over its two-year primary mission. The planets in Kepler’s narrow field of view were as far as 3,000 light-years away, too distant for ...

An international team of astronomers, led by San Diego State University researchers, has discovered a third transiting planet in the Kepler-47 (K-47) circumbinary system - a system where the ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...