DESPITE taking millions of years to reach exoplanet Kepler 452-b, do scientists believe humans could survive of Earth's distant "bigger, older cousin"?. Kepler project scientists, who use the ...

NASA’s Kepler Space telescope science team has just announced the discovery of the most Earth-like planet ever. Meet Kepler 452-b, the very first apparently rocky planet that orbits a sun-like star in ...

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star, the agency announced Thursday. Kepler-452b is the smallest planet ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has spotted something pretty nifty: "Earth's bigger, older cousin." The Earth-size planet, Kepler-452b, was found circling a sun-like star in an orbit that takes 385 days. The ...

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 ...

Kepler 452b is an alien world recently examined by astronomers that may be a near-twin of the Earth. Researchers from NASA and other scientific organizations believe this explanet may, however, be ...

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 ...

We are one step closer to answering the grand question of whether or not we're alone in the universe, NASA announced in a news conference Thursday. The agency presented the discovery of the first ...

NASA has announced the news mankind has long been waiting for: They've finally found a planet that's a lot like Earth. The NASA space-based Kepler telescope discovered the planet, labeled Kepler 452-b ...

NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate ...

07:15, Fri, Jul 24, 2015 Updated: 07:46, Fri, Jul 24, 2015 So what do we know about it so far? 1. Kepler-452b is the first exo-planet found which is orbiting a similar star to our sun, known as a ...

In our search for alien life, the most likely planets in the universe that potentially host life are, more than likely, those that exist within their star's habitable zones, as well as those that are ...