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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...