Gizmodo

Kepler Has Spotted Two Of The Most Earth-Like Planets Yet

The amazing Kepler Space Telescope has now catalogued over 1,000 exoplanets. Among them are eight new planets located within habitable zones, including two that astronomers say are the most Earth-like ...
Gizmodo

Kepler Breaks The 1,000-Planet Barrier With More Confirmed Discoveries

The Kepler Space Telescope has found over 1,000 confirmed exoplanets. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Kepler is a planet-hunting powerhouse. Even more impressive? Kepler is already finding ...
IFLScience

"Earth-Like Planet" Would Have Been Stripped Bare By Enormous Blasts Of Radiation

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Astronomy

NASA’s Kepler marks 1,000th exoplanet discovery, uncovers more small worlds in habitable zones

How many stars like our Sun host planets like Earth? NASA’s Kepler space telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date the mission has offered ...
bleedingcool

Have They Found Krypton?

Kepler 438b is the most Earth-like planet yet discovered, according to astronomers. At 12% larger than Earth, the new claimant is bigger than 186f but it is closer to our temperature, probably ...