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Our galaxy could be littered with warm, watery planets like Earth. That's the conclusion of researchers at Penn State University, who used data from NASA's Kepler telescope to estimate the number ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA announced Tuesday it has discovered a planet that is a lot like Earth, and could possibly support life. Produced by Matthew Stuart Follow TI Video: On Facebook ...

Where will humans go when the earth is no more? Maybe to a kepler planet which is called an exoplanet! These exoplanets are planets like earth and these have all been discovered recently by NASA ...

The Kepler telescope detects tiny dips in the brightness of stars as planets pass between them ... sun and could in theory show us what Earth could be like that far down the line, as aging stars ...

Reports from the Kepler mission have raised hopes for finding an Earth-like planet. Nevertheless, our Earth is probably unique — not just because of its distance from the Sun, but also because ...

it’s important to understand how Kepler searches for planets. The telescope watches a section of the sky and carefully notes the dimming and flickering of individual stars. While on Earth the ...

Astronomers heading the search for extraterrestrial intelligence predict their quest might first spark an encounter with ...

Image source: NASA/Daniel Rutter The newly discovered Kepler-385 includes a sun-like star at the center ... Both inner planets are larger than Earth, and scientists estimate they are both rocky ...

Data from the Kepler space telescope combined ... Number of exoplanets similar in size to Earth — mostly likely to be rocky planets Number of Sun-like stars — around the same age and ...