How many stars like our Sun host planets like Earth? NASA’s Kepler space telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date the mission has offered ...

May the faint chemical signals drifting through the atmosphere of a distant world be the long-sought message that we are not ...

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 ...

It's hard to remember now, but there was a long period of time in which scientists weren't sure how many planets might actually exist throughout the galaxy, much less how likely it might be to find a ...

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star opened the door to exploring this profound ...

Astronomers have uncovered a potentially habitable Earth-sized exoplanet 300 light-years away from us. Out of the 2,681 exoplanets spotted by NASA's Kepler space telescope between 2009 and 2018, this ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A super-Earth basks in the glow of its star in this artist's impression. Is the world habitable ...

The Kepler probe's focus is on finding another habitable planet. — -- NASA says we're on our way to discovering Earth 2.0. The Kepler Space Telescope has located a planet and star closely ...