NASA is committed to finding life in the universe and new evidence shows that they might be best suited looking at "Goldilocks stars" instead of stars known as red dwarfs. Orange dwarfs, also known as ...

It's not Earth 2.0, but scientists are getting closer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft ...

Two years after it stirred up speculation about the possibility of alien life, the Kepler Space Telescope will be at the center of a NASA announcement on Thursday. NASA does not mention aliens ...

As far as we know, Earth is pretty special. Scientists have found more than 3,200 distant planets, but none are quite as conducive to life as ours. Some have the potential to be, though, falling in a ...

A decade after being found, the first exoplanet candidate spotted by the Kepler space telescope has been confirmed as a real world. The planet orbits a star initially dubbed KOI 4, for Kepler Object ...

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered a “cousin” of Earth 1,400 light-years away. The exoplanet Kepler 452b orbits a sunlike star at about the same distance as Earth orbits the sun, scientists ...