Does liquid water exist on the surface of Kepler-1649c, a rocky alien planet just 6% bigger than the Earth? A new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters reveals that astronomers have ...

Meet exoplanet Kepler-1649c — it’s the same size as Earth, and its distance from its sun is just right for life — and that may NOT be a good thing. Sitting roughly 300 light years from Earth, the ...

Researchers have discovered a new Earth-sized planet orbiting a star outside our solar system. The planet, called Kepler-1649c, is only around 1.06 times larger than Earth, making it very similar to ...

A planet with a similar size to Earth, orbiting a distant star some 300 light-years away, and is likely suitable for life, was discovered by astronomers examining data collected by the now-defunct ...

In October 2018, NASA's Kepler space telescope ran out of fuel after nine years of surveying the wider cosmos, looking for alien worlds. During its mission, Kepler discovered more than 2,600 weird and ...

Life down on Earth may be fairly weird right now, but that isn't stopping scientists from sifting through NASA data to try to identify Earth-like planets out in the universe. The Kepler space ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. NASA's ...

The search for habitable exoplanets has made a discovery in an unexpected place: data that had supposedly been searched years ago. Scientists combing over early data from the Kepler space telescope ...

NASA has just made an announcement that’s bound to invigorate any proverbial believers out there, as well as further confound those who were already perplexed by the Fermi Paradox: A transatlantic ...

“This intriguing, distant world gives us even greater hope that a second Earth lies among the stars, waiting to be found,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission ...

A review of early data returned by NASA's Kepler mission has revealed one of the most Earth-like exoplanets discovered so far. Located 300 light-years away, the new planet is slightly larger than our ...