A planet 1,200 light years away is one of the best candidates for life that we've ever discovered. It's called Kepler-62f, and it's so far away that we can't tell many details about it. But a team of ...

Astronomers think they've found a "super Earth" that might be capable of sustaining life. Kepler-62f is a planet 1,200 light-years away from our own, and in the same range of planets that are likely ...

Two of the earliest Earth-ish exoplanet finds are now more exciting targets in the search for habitable worlds beyond this rock. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

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It's been over 20 years since the first planet orbiting a Sun-like star outside our solar system was discovered, and at last count the grand total stands at 3,268. Unfortunately, only a handful of ...

Climate and orbit models reveal that Earth-like planet Kepler-62f may be able to sustain life, according to experts. Kepler-62f is located some 1,200 light-years away from the Earth and is about 40 ...

NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered three exoplanets that may be capable of supporting life, and one of them is perhaps the most Earth-like alien world spotted to date, scientists announced ...

A distant 'super-Earth' size planet known as Kepler-62f could be habitable, a team of astronomers reports. The planet, which is about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation ...