NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

Our science fictions dreams of Martians may never come true, but three earth-like planets discovered orbiting a nearby star have potential life and water, astronomers announced Monday. The sizes and ...

Australian researchers have made a discovery of a potentially habitable planet 150 light years away - but there’s a catch to ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

All seven roughly match the size and mass of our own planet and are almost certainly rocky. Researchers announced Wednesday the stunning discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in ...