Kepler 452b (right) is about 60 per cent larger in diameter than Earth (Artist’s impression: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle) Meet Kepler 452b, Earth’s new alien cousin. This rocky planet is the first alien ...

The crew of The Ark (streaming now on Peacock) abandoned a dying Earth in pursuit of humanity’s new home on Proxima centauri b. That world does have one thing going for it, it’s nearby, orbiting the ...

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 ...

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...

It's easy to imagine clone armies, lightsabers, and starships on some of these very real planets.

It's been about twenty years since the discovery of the first definitive proof that there are planets outside our solar system, and today NASA has revealed that it has found the first near-Earth-sized ...

07:15, Fri, Jul 24, 2015 Updated: 07:46, Fri, Jul 24, 2015 So what do we know about it so far? 1. Kepler-452b is the first exo-planet found which is orbiting a similar star to our sun, known as a ...

Losing it would leave you looking like Mars, frozen and barren. Scorching and barren, more like. The model here is Venus. Without liquid surface water carbon dioxide can't be bound in surface rocks, ...

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 ...