When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

Thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope, NASA has announced the discovery of the first near-Earth size planet in the so-called habitable zone around another star 1,400 light-years from Earth, in the ...

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 ...

NASA’s Kepler telescope has identified Kepler 452b, the most Earth like planet ever discovered, orbiting in the habitable zone of a sunlike star. This video explains why the find is so important, how ...