Scientists analyzing four years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission have released a new catalog of exoplanet candidates. The catalog adds more than 500 new possible planets to the 4,175 already found ...

In a press release on Thursday, Kepler-452b was introduced, along with 11 other possible small habitable zone candidates, marking another milestone in Kepler’s mission to find another Earth-like ...

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered a “cousin” of Earth 1,400 light-years away. The exoplanet Kepler 452b orbits a sunlike star at about the same distance as Earth orbits the sun, scientists ...

Scientists have confirmed Kepler-452b as the most Earth-like planet ever found, orbiting a sun-like star 1,400 light-years away. Here's what the discovery means for the future of exoplanet research ...

University of Texas at Austin astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler mission have helped to discover the first near-Earth-size planet around a Sun-like star in the “habitable zone,” the range of ...

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope confirmed more than 2,600 exoplanets, including several located in the so-called habitable zone, where liquid water could exist. Worlds like Kepler-186f, Kepler-452b, and ...