The artist's concept depicts Kepler-186f , the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone—a range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the ...

Technicians working inside the Astrotech Space Operations facility near NASA's Kennedy Space Center look over the Kepler spacecraft soon after it arrived in Florida in preparation for launch. [Read ...

Kepler-186f orbits an M dwarf star in the constellation Cygnus. More importantly, it's the first confirmed Earth-size, potentially habitable planet elsewhere in the universe. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has just spotted Earth's cousin. Its next big find may be Earth's twin. On Thursday (April 17), astronomers announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the ...

Earth, meet your distant cousin. The Kepler space telescope has turned up a potentially water-bearing world nearly as small as our planet. The planet is the smallest one found in any star’s habitable ...

Astronomers have discovered the first Earth-sized planet that meets just the right qualities to potentially harbor life. With the help of the Kepler Space Telescope, they identified Kepler-186f, a ...

THE hunt for life in space has taken a step forward with the discovery of “Earth’s cousin” orbiting a distant star. The exoplanet dubbed Kepler-186f was first spotted by scientists using NASA’s Kepler ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Kepler Space Telescope found a lot of data before it malfunctioned in 2013; scientists are now going back through it. With much fanfare, ...

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered a “cousin” of Earth 1,400 light-years away. The exoplanet Kepler 452b orbits a sunlike star at about the same distance as Earth orbits the sun, scientists ...

We've come a long way. First it was only giant planets seared by hot proximity to their host stars. Not anymore. Astronomers announced the discovery today of the first Earth-sized planet in the ...