The fascinating exoplanet is slightly larger than Earth. It receives 75% of the amount of light we get from our own sun, which could put it in line with Earth temperatures as well.

On July 23, 2015, NASA announced the discovery of the first truly Earth-like planet. This find comes thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope , which was launched in March of 2009 and has been planet ...

The discovery of a second Earth could further stimulate this investment leading to economic opportunities both on and off our planet. Conclusion A New Chapter in Space Exploration.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified TOI-1846 b, a super-Earth exoplanet located 154 light-years away.

The planet, dubbed Kepler-22b, has a radius 2.4 times that of Earth and is 600 light years away, according to NASA. It's the first planet confirmed to be in a "habitable zone," a region around a ...

Like Earth, it’s made of rock. “This is a historic discovery,” said Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, at a press conference introducing the new planet. (See pictures of ...

The discovery of this new candidate exoplanet is contained in this new paper, but the history goes back a few years. Multiple teams of scientists have scoured Proxima Centauri for exoplanets.

While a discovery from 2016 did reveal the presence of a small asteroid trapped in Earth’s orbit, this object cannot be classified as a moon. Alex Kasprak Published Oct. 16, 2017 ...

GJ 367 b therefore cannot be considered a ‘second Earth’. Parent star is a ‘red dwarf’ The parent star of this newly discovered exoplanet, a red dwarf called GJ 367, is only about half the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A super-Earth, Kepler-725c, about 10 times Earth's mass, has been detected in the habitable zone of a sun-like star using the Transit Timing Variation (TTV ...