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 ...

NASA discovery of planet remarkably like ours gives hope for 'second Earth' Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.

Scientists studying data from the Alpha Centauri star system on Wednesday announced what they believe is a second Earth-like planet orbiting the star closest to … ...

With half the mass of Earth, the newly discovered planet is one of the lightest among the nearly 5000 exoplanets known today. ... GJ 367 b therefore cannot be considered a ‘second Earth’.

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New super-Earth discovery will help astronomers search for life in the Universe. ... an instrument capable of detecting velocity shifts as small as 10 centimeters per second.

So far, the latter has discovered 2,335 exoplanets, 21 of which are in their star's habitable regions, and just the right size and mass for life. The most famous of those is Trappist-1 , a seven ...

NASA announced a major milestone in the quest for life in the universe Monday: The discovery of another planet close enough to the sun it orbits to potentially support life. Called Kepler-22b, the ...

If this theoretical second planet in the system is confirmed, it would become the smallest habitable-zone planet discovered by TESS, NASA's exoplanet-detecting satellite.