Stars with Earth-like planets may be the rule rather than the exception, scientists announced Monday. Data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope indicates one in five sun-like stars in the Milky ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. (CNN) — The NASA Kepler mission has discovered 219 more exoplanets, including 10 Earth-size planets, program scientist Mario Perez said Monday at NASA’s Ames Research Center in ...

For all our technological progress, humanity remains confined to a single planet. But that may not always be the case. Over ...

Kepler-452b may be Earth's close cousin, but living on the newfound world would still be an alien experience. A group of pioneers magically transported to the surface of Kepler-452b-- which is the ...

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 ...

This artist illustration shows what it might be like to stand on the surface of the planet Kepler-186f, the first-ever Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of its star. It's the brass ...

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 ...

(UPI) -- The latest findings from data collected by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, now crippled and its mission completed, show there are many more potentially habitable planets in our galaxy than we ...

Astronomers digging through data from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope say they have discovered the closest Earth-like “twin” circling another star ever found. The planet, called ...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler Telescope has spotted the first roughly Earth-sized world orbiting in the "Goldilocks zone" of another star – offering perhaps the best bet so far for life elsewhere in ...

Scientists have discovered and confirmed the most Earth-like planet yet using the Kepler Space Telescope, offering hope of life elsewhere and of a future for the handicapped spacecraft. Boulder-based ...