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

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 ...

Worlds that circle stars other than our own are called “exoplanets.” This specific one could be the very first planet like Earth that we see passing in front ...

A unique characteristic of the candidate planet HD 137010b is its ice-cold temperature.

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

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Kepler Space Telescope, a mission which was designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy, retired in 2018, but its ...