The fascinating exoplanet is slightly larger than Earth. It receives 75% of the amount of light we get from our own sun, which could put it in line with Earth temperatures as well.

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 Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

While a discovery from 2016 did reveal the presence of a small asteroid trapped in Earth’s orbit, this object cannot be classified as a moon. Alex Kasprak Published Oct. 16, 2017 ...

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. (See pictures of ...

Contact with extraterrestrial life would be an epochal event. Even the discovery of a simple alien organism would be transformative, giving us unprecedented insight into how life forms on Earth ...

GJ 367 b therefore cannot be considered a ‘second Earth’. Parent star is a ‘red dwarf’ The parent star of this newly discovered exoplanet, a red dwarf called GJ 367, is only about half the ...

It dates back to a pivotal period in Earth's history: 66 million years ago. Buried under 300 meters (~984 feet) of sediment, this crater is nearly undetectable by traditional means.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A super-Earth, Kepler-725c, about 10 times Earth's mass, has been detected in the habitable zone of a sun-like star using the Transit Timing Variation (TTV ...