When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were pointing to a planet that orbits a star much like our own, in a region where ...

In a press release on Thursday, Kepler-452b was introduced, along with 11 other possible small habitable zone candidates, marking another milestone in Kepler’s mission to find another Earth-like ...

Scientists analyzing four years of data from NASA’s Kepler mission have released a new catalog of exoplanet candidates. The catalog adds more than 500 new possible planets to the 4,175 already found ...

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 ...

Inching ahead on their quest for what they call Earth 2.0, astronomers from NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft announced Thursday that they had found what might be one of the closest analogues to ...

Can we live on Kepler 452-b? – Year Five, Globe Primary School, London, UK. Kepler-452 is the name of a star in the constellation of Cygnus (the swan). It’s a star that’s similar to our own sun, but ...