When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were pointing to a planet that orbits a star much like our own, in a region where ...

Kepler-452b is the most Earth-like planet ever discovered, a place with just enough sunlight to possibly support the crops and house plants of life forms like ourselves. Subscribe to read this story ...

NASA announced today the discovery of Kepler 452b, which it's touting as the most Earth-like exoplanet found so far. It even released a pretty artist impression of the planet's lakes and mountains.

Last week, the human race met its very first Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star in the habitable zone. Kepler-452b’s discovery was met with resounding excitement, but the news was bittersweet.

NASA’s announcement of the discovery of a new extrasolar planet has been met with a lot of excitement. But the truth is that it is impossible to judge whether it is similar to Earth with the few ...

NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the "habitable zone" around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate ...

Can we live on Kepler 452-b? – Year Five, Globe Primary School, London, UK. Kepler-452 is the name of a star in the constellation of Cygnus (the swan). It’s a star that’s similar to our own sun, but ...

Scientists say the recent discovery of a distant exoplanet similar enough to Earth to be deemed a "cousin" could yield clues to how our Earth — and any planet possibly hospitable to life — might form.