When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Kepler-69c is a planet that could be a "super-Venus" or a "super-Earth," depending on how ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered three exoplanets that may be capable of supporting life, and one of them is perhaps the most Earth-like alien world spotted to date, scientists announced ...

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-sized planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ...

Habitable zone planets (from left to right) Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f are shown here to scale relative to Earth. A total of 715 new planets were recently found in our region of the Milky ...

Scientists are reporting a bounty of new worlds that may be capable of sustaining life, with the discovery of three exoplanets slightly larger than Earth orbiting within their stars’ habitable zone.

The Kepler mission–which was launched in 2009–has discovered a system of planets, three of which may be life-sustaining. Researchers involved in the mission now believe there are many more habitable ...

The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered thousands of possible exoplanets during its years working for NASA, with each bringing us one step closer to finding another world in our universe that hosts ...

(CNN) -- In the midst of chaos here on Earth, scientists are finding hope for life on other planets. Scientists announced Thursday the discovery of three planets that are some of the best candidates ...

NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered three "super-Earth-size" exoplanets that are close enough to their stars to make them possibly suitable for water. Two of the planets (Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f) ...

Thousands of light-years from Earth, there could be another planet hospitable to life. Kepler 69c. And you’re about to travel ...

A total of 715 new planets were recently found in our region of the Milky Way, almost doubling the number of exoplanets we know of. NASA announced the find, made using the Kepler space telescope and a ...