It's remarkably similar to Earth.
What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.
NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...
Relative sizes of the newly discovered habitable-zone planets and Earth. Left to right: Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: ...
The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.
Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet about 146 light-years away which is Earth-sized and has conditions similar to Mars. The candidate planet, named HD 137010 b, orbits a sun ...