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The artist's concept depicts Kepler-62f, a super-Earth planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra.

NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered three exoplanets that may be capable of supporting life, and one of them is perhaps the most Earth-like alien world spotted to date, scientists announced ...

This artist’s concept depicts Kepler-62e, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

A recent estimate places the chances of finding an exoplanet in the habitable zone of any given star in our galaxy at one in ten. Re-read that sentence tomorrow if you’re celebrating 420 Day to have ...

The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered thousands of possible exoplanets during its years working for NASA, with each bringing us one step closer to finding another world in our universe that hosts ...

Scientists have yet to find alien life forms or another world where water flows freely, but a recent discovery makes them thinking they are on the brink of locating many Earth-like planets. On ...

Slowly but surely closing in on an answer to a fundamental question -- how common are Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars? -- NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered the smallest worlds ...

Water worlds? Astronomers have detected the most Earth-like planet that has the potential to support water yet found by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. The planet, known as Kepler 62f, is one of five ...

Researchers have discovered five Earth-sized planets, two of which are circling a sun-like star at a distance that would allow those planets to support life. NASA will hold a news briefing at 2 p.m.

Two newly discovered alien planets might be water worlds whose global oceans are teeming with life, scientists say. The existence of the distant exoplanets, called Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f, was ...