“This discovery supports the growing belief that we live in a universe crowded with life,” Boss said. “Kepler is on the verge of determining the actual abundance of habitable, Earth-like ...

Kepler-1649c is located 300 light-years from Earth. NASA described it as the "most similar to Earth in size and estimated temperature" out of the thousands of exoplanets discovered by Kepler.

The exoplanet, Kepler-725c, has 10 times the mass of Earth and is located in the habitable zone of the sun-like star Kepler-725. The discovery is published in Nature Astronomy.

If this theoretical second planet in the system is confirmed, it would become the smallest habitable-zone planet discovered by TESS, NASA's exoplanet-detecting satellite.

HARPS achieved a precision of 1 meter per second, enabling the discovery of smaller planets, including the first super-Earth.

PASADENA (CBS)— NASA announced a major milestone in the quest for life in the universe Monday: The discovery of another planet close enough to Earth that it could support life. The planet ...

Scientists studying data from the Alpha Centauri star system on Wednesday announced what they believe is a second Earth-like planet orbiting the star closest to the sun.The finding, announced via ...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. "Planetary system's second Earth-size world discovered." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 10 January 2023. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 01 / 230110151046 ...

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 first discovery of a second Earth will likely be another watershed moment for her and many, she said. "An Earth analogue has different implications," she said.

The most famous of those is Trappist-1, a seven-planet system discovered in February. It's just 40 light-years from Earth, and as many as three of its planets are in the "Goldilocks zone." ...

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.