Kepler-452b may be Earth's close cousin, but living on the newfound world would still be an alien experience. A group of pioneers magically transported to the surface of Kepler-452b-- which is the ...

Remember the name Kepler 452b. Because in our search to discover if we are alone in this vast and fascinating universe, a sole life-harboring world among countless dead and uninhabitable planets, we ...

NASA's planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has just discovered Kepler-452b, a planet that scientists are calling "Earth 2.0." Scientists said in a press conference Thursday that they ...

Astronomers digging through data from NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope say they have discovered the closest Earth-like “twin” circling another star ever found. The planet, called ...

Kepler 452b (right) is about 60 per cent larger in diameter than Earth (Artist’s impression: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle) Meet Kepler 452b, Earth’s new alien cousin. This rocky planet is the first alien ...

The SETI Institute and NASA have confirmed the discovery of Kepler 452b, the most Earth-like planet ever encountered. Located in the Goldilocks zone of its host star, this planet would have “just the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a writer specializing in physics, astronomy, and related topics. What do we mean when we talk about "another Earth"? That's a ...

There are a billion Earths in this galaxy, roughly speaking. Not a million. A billion. We’re talking a billion rocky planets that are approximately the size of Earth and are orbiting familiar-looking, ...

If Kepler 452b applied for the position of most Earthlike exoplanet, it would boast an impressive résumé. The newly discovered world (illustrated above) mimics our planet with a 385-day orbit around a ...

NASA's planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope, has just discovered Kepler-452b, a planet that scientists are calling "Earth 2.0." Scientists said in a press conference Thursday that they ...