A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

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

A team of researchers at the University of Southern Queensland has discovered a potentially habitable planet 150 light-years away near the outer edge of the habitable zone.

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

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet which is estimated to be 6 percent larger than Earth. Named HD 137010 b, the planet is located about 146 light-away from Earth ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – NASA scientists announced Wednesday that they’ve discovered an Earth-size exoplanet that is remarkably similar to our planet. NASA says a team of transatlantic scientists were ...

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 ...